Large brains,small guts: The expensive tissue hypothesis supported within anurans

American Naturalist

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 693-700

  Liao, Wen Bo ^a   Lou, Shang Ling ^a   Zeng, Yu ^a   Kotrschal, Alexander ^b  

^a CHINA WEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anurans; Brain size evolution; Expensive tissue hypothesis; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Trade off

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANURA; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVUM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84996537109     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/688894     Document Type: Article

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