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Are sexually selected traits affected by a poor environment early in life?

BACKGROUND: Challenging conditions experienced early in life, such as a restricted diet, can detrimentally affect key life-history traits. Individuals can reduce these costs by delaying their sexual maturation, albeit at the price of the later onset of breeding, to eventually reach the same adult si...

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Autores principales: Vega-Trejo, Regina, Jennions, Michael D., Head, Megan L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27905874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0838-2