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Juvenile ecology drives adult morphology in two insect orders

Most animals undergo ecological niche shifts between distinct life phases, but such shifts can result in adaptive conflicts of phenotypic traits. Metamorphosis can reduce these conflicts by breaking up trait correlations, allowing each life phase to independently adapt to its ecological niche. This...

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Autores principales: Rühr, Peter T., van de Kamp, Thomas, Faragó, Tomáš, Hammel, Jörg U., Wilde, Fabian, Borisova, Elena, Edel, Carina, Frenzel, Melina, Baumbach, Tilo, Blanke, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8206691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34130499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0616