Sex in a material world: why the study of sexual reproduction and sex-specific traits should become more nutritionally-explicit

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  • Nathan I. Morehouse
  • Takefumi Nakazawa
  • Christina M. Booher
  • Punidan D. Jeyasingh
  • Matthew D. Hall
چکیده

N. I. Morehouse ([email protected]), Inst. de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte, UMR CNRS 6035, Univ. de Tours, FR–37200 Tours, France, and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ 85287-4601, USA. – T. Nakazawa, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto Univ., 509-3, 2-chome, Hirano, Otsu, JP–520-2113 Shiga, Japan, and Inst. of Oceanography, National Taiwan Univ., No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan. – C. M. Booher, Dept of Biological Sciences, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL 36849, USA. – P. D. Jeyasingh, Dept of Zoology, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. – M. D. Hall, Evolution and Ecology Research Center, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, and Zoologisches Inst., Evolutionsbiologie, Univ. of Basel, Vesalgasse 1, CH–4051 Basel, Switzerland.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010