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Life-history correlates of evolution under high and low adult mortality.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2000
Gasser M, Kaiser M, Berrigan D, Stearns S C
Abstract excerpt
Life-history theory predicts evolutionary changes in reproductive traits and intrinsic mortality rates in response to differences in extrinsic mortality rates. Trade-offs between life- history traits play a pivotal role in these predictions, and such trade-offs are mediated, at least in part, by physiological allocations. To gain insight into these trade-offs, we have been performing a long-term experiment in...
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