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Cut your losses: self-amputation of injured limbs increases survival
Autotomy, self-induced limb loss, is an extreme trait observed throughout the animal kingdom; lizards drop their tails, crickets release their legs, and crabs drop their claws. These repeated evolutionary origins suggest that autotomy is adaptive. Yet, we do not have a firm understanding of the sele...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5873245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29622925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx063 |