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Maternal investment, maturational rate of the offspring and mechanical competence of the adult female skeleton

LAY SUMMARY: Girls with a slower life history trajectory build a larger body with larger and mechanically stronger bones. Thus, variation in the emergence of slower versus faster life history trajectories during development can have consequences for bone mechanical competence, and hence fracture ris...

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Autores principales: Macintosh, Alison A, Wells, Jonathan C K, Stock, Jay T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6101485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30152815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoy015