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Influence of Maternal Size on Offspring Traits in a Marine Gastropod with Direct Development and without Sibling Interaction.
The Biological bulletin - 1 Apr 2021
Avaca María Soledad, Storero Lorena, Martín Pablo, Narvarte Maite
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AbstractIn most animal taxa, large mothers (or those with high nutritional status) produce large offspring, leading to a maternal size-offspring size correlation, that is, a positive correlation between maternal size and offspring size. Here, we used the natural variation in maternal size between three natural populations of Buccinanops deformis (a marine snail with direct development, nurse egg feeding, and a...
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