Evolutionary Compromise between a Few Large and Many Small Eggs: Comparative Evidence in Teleost Fish
- 1 November 1990
- Vol. 59 (2) , 283-287
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3545546
Abstract
Covariation in reproductive variables across 26 families of teleost fish is examined to investigate an evolutionary trade-off between the size and number of off...This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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