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Trade-off between offspring mass and number: the lightest offspring bear the costs

Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between offspring size and number. However, the role of intra-litter phenotypic variation in shaping this trade-off is often disregarded. We compared the strength of the relationship between litter size and mass from the perspective of the lightest and the he...

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Veröffentlicht in:Biol Lett
Hauptverfasser: Van de Walle, Joanie, Zedrosser, Andreas, Swenson, Jon E., Pelletier, Fanie
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2020
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058944/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0707
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