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Field evidence challenges the often‐presumed relationship between early male maturation and female‐biased sexual size dimorphism

Female‐biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is often considered an epiphenomenon of selection for the increased mating opportunities provided by early male maturation (i.e., protandry). Empirical evidence of the adaptive significance of protandry remains nonetheless fairly scarce. We use field data c...

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Autores principales: Chelini, Marie‐Claire, Hebets, Eileen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5696407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29187992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3450

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