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Healthier or bigger? Trade‐off mediating male dimorphism in the black scavenger fly Sepsis thoracica (Diptera: Sepsidae)

2017-08-01

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1. Life history trade‐offs emerge when limited resources are allocated to multiple functions of an organism. Under highly competitive conditions trade‐offs can result in alternative phenotypes that differ morphologically and physiologically. Such is the case in insect species that grow under high densities, where competition for resources but also the risk of disease contagion is high, prompting important adjustme...

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Literature Corpus work: bdcf62f8-6a75-5559-8952-c77a6c6cd840
DOI: 10.1111/een.12413

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