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What is the meta-analytic evidence for life-history trade-offs at the genetic level?
Ecology letters - 1 Jan 2024
Chang Chia-Chen, Moiron Maria, Sánchez-Tójar Alfredo, Niemelä Petri T, Laskowski Kate L
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Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms underlying the maintenance of individual differences in behavior and physiology is a fundamental goal in ecology and evolution. The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis is often invoked to explain the maintenance of such within-population variation. This hypothesis predicts that behavioral traits are part of a suite of correlated traits that collectively determine an...
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