Fitness implications of sex-specific catch-up growth in Nephila senegalensis, a spider with extreme reversed SSD
Background Animal growth is often constrained by unfavourable conditions and divergences from optimal body size can be detrimental to an individual’s fitness, particularly in species with determinate growth and a narrow time-frame for life-time reproduction. Growth restriction in early juvenile stag...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-11-01
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