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The fitness costs of reproductive specialization scale inversely with organismal size
2025-12-09
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of reproductive specialization represents a fundamental innovation in multicellular life, yet the conditions favoring its evolution remain poorly understood. Here, we develop a population genetic framework that examines the fitness cost of reproductive specialization as a function of organism size. We show analytically that the costs of specialization decrease dramatically with organism size. For exa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5151e91b-e126-55a0-a002-d17051f6d57a
- DOI
- 10.64898/2025.12.08.693006