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How Do We Measure the Cost of Whole-Organism Performance Traits?
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Aug 2017
Husak Jerry F, Lailvaux Simon P
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SYNOPSIS: Whole-organism performance traits, such as maximal speed and endurance capacity are undoubtedly costly, but we know little about how or when all of the costs associated with performance are paid to individuals or how to measure them. To understand how performance traits might be involved in trade-offs with other life-history traits it is critical to determine the development, production, and maintenance...
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