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Sex-specific selective pressures on body mass in the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2005
Bouteiller-Reuter C, Perrin N
Abstract excerpt
The direction, intensity and shape of viability-, sexual- and fecundity selection on body mass were investigated in a natural population of the greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula), combining parentage assignment through molecular techniques and mark-recapture data over several generations. A highly significant stabilizing viability selection was found in both sexes, presumably stemming from the...
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