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Bigger is not always better: conflicting selective pressures on seed size in Quercus ilex.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2004

Gómez José M

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Most theoretical treatments of the evolutionary ecology of offspring size assume a simple and direct effect of investment per offspring on offspring fitness. In this paper I experimentally determine the relationship between seed mass and several main fitness components of the oak Quercus ilex, to estimate phenotypic selection acting on seed mass during the early life cycle and to discover any potential selective...

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PMID: 15058720
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01574.x

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