Egg and time limitation mediate an egg protection strategy
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Time limitation, egg limitation, the cost of oviposition, and lifetime reproduction by an insect in nature.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1010-061X
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12363