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Life history predicts flight muscle phenotype and function in birds.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 May 2020
DuBay Shane G, Wu Yongjie, Scott Graham R, Qu Yanhua, Liu Qiao, Smith Joel H, Xin Chao, Hart Reeve Andrew, Juncheng Chen, Meyer Dylan, Wang Jing, Johnson Jacob, Cheviron Zachary A, Lei Fumin, Bates John
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Functional traits are the essential phenotypes that underlie an organism's life history and ecology. Although biologists have long recognized that intraspecific variation is consequential to an animals' ecology, studies of functional variation are often restricted to species-level comparisons, ignoring critical variation within species. In birds, interspecific comparisons have been foundational in connecting...
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