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Immunity for nothing and the eggs for free: Apparent lack of both physiological trade-offs and terminal reproductive investment in female crickets (Gryllus texensis)

Should females alter their reproductive strategy when attacked by pathogens? Two hypotheses provide opposite predictions. Terminal reproductive investment theory predicts that reproduction should increase when the risk of death increases. However, physiological trade-offs between reproduction and im...

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Autores principales: Miyashita, Atsushi, Lee, Ting Yat Marco, McMillan, Laura E., Easy, Russell, Adamo, Shelley A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31091239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209957