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Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect
BACKGROUND: In most arthropods, adult females are larger than males, and male competition is a race to quickly locate and mate with scattered females (scramble competition polygyny). Variation in body size among males may confer advantages that depend on context. Smaller males may be favored due to...
Autores principales: | Boisseau, Romain P., Büscher, Thies H., Klawitter, Lexi J., Gorb, Stanislav N., Emlen, Douglas J., Tobalske, Bret W. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962604/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01993-z |
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