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Reproduction triggers adaptive increases in body size in female mole-rats

In social mole-rats, breeding females are larger and more elongated than non-breeding female helpers. This status-related morphological divergence is thought to arise from modifications of skeletal growth following the death or removal of the previous breeder and the transition of their successors f...

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Publié dans:Proc Biol Sci
Auteurs principaux: Thorley, Jack, Katlein, Nathan, Goddard, Katy, Zöttl, Markus, Clutton-Brock, Tim
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2018
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6015866/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875307
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0897
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