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Enlarged Egg Size Increases Offspring Fitness of a Frog Species on the Zhoushan Archipelago of China

Egg size represents maternal investment and is an important life-history trait. It also is assumed to have an effect on offspring fitness. Life-history theory predicts that oviparous animals on islands will produce enlarged eggs because of increased maternal investment to improve offspring performan...

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Autores principales: Xu, Feng, Yang, Weikang, Li, Yiming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6690981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31406161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48147-8

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