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Trade-off between offspring mass and number: the lightest offspring bear the costs
Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between offspring size and number. However, the role of intra-litter phenotypic variation in shaping this trade-off is often disregarded. We compared the strength of the relationship between litter size and mass from the perspective of the lightest and the he...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058944/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0707 |