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Limited male incubation ability and the evolution of egg size in shorebirds

In bird species where males incubate but are smaller than females, egg size may be constrained by male body size, and hence ability to incubate the eggs. Using data from 71 such shorebird species, we show that egg size decreases as the degree of female-biased sexual size dimorphism increases, after...

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Autores principales: Lislevand, Terje, Thomas, Gavin H
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1618901/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17148363
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0428
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