Measuring the cost of plasticity: Avoid multi-collinearity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1719, 2011, Pages 2726-2727

  Auld, Josh R ^a   Agrawal, Anurag A ^b   Relyea, Rick A ^c  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 80051490590     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1150     Document Type: Note

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