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Small size does not confer male agility advantages in a sexually-size dimorphic spider
Selection pressures leading to extreme, female-biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in spiders continue to be debated. It has been proposed that males of sexually size dimorphic spiders could be small because gravity constrains adult agility (locomotor abilities). Accordingly, small males should achi...
Autores principales: | Quiñones-Lebrón, Shakira G., Gregorič, Matjaž, Kuntner, Matjaž, Kralj-Fišer, Simona |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31091246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216036 |
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