Convergent growth regulation in arthropods: Biological fact or statistical artifact?

Oecologia

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 56-61

  Lytle, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Body size; Geometric mean regression; Measurement error; Model II regression

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CONVERGENCE; GROWTH;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034941464     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100639     Document Type: Article

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