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Production of offspring using current income and reserves: size-number trade-off and optimal offspring size

✍ Scribed by Satoki Sakai; Yasushi Harada

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 257 KB
Volume: 233
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.09.007

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