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Trade-offs between force and fit: extreme morphologies associated with feeding behavior in carabid beetles.

The American naturalist - 1 Jul 2007

Konuma Junji, Chiba Satoshi

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We explored how functional trade-offs in resource handling strategies are associated with the divergent morphology of predators. The malacophagous carabid Damaster blaptoides shows two extreme morphologies in the forebody; there is an elongate small-headed type and a stout large-headed type. A fe...

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PMID: 17853994
DOI: 10.1086/518182

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