Introducing the refined gravity hypothesis of extreme sexual size dimorphism

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Corcobado, Guadalupe ^a   Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^a   De Mas, Eva ^a   Moya Larão, Jordi ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPIDER; TRADE-OFF;

ARANEAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPIDERS;

EID: 77955107252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-236     Document Type: Article

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