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Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus

Physical impairments are widely assumed to reduce the viability of individual animals, but their impacts on individuals within natural populations of vertebrates are rarely quantified. By monitoring wild populations of white-footed mice over 26 years, we assessed whether missing or deformed limbs, t...

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Autores principales: Rubino, Francesca I., Oggenfuss, Kelly, Ostfeld, Richard S.
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/PMC8564606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34727716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1942