Evolution and maintenance of sexual size dimorphism: aligning phylogenetic and experimental evidence
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1 Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 Centre for Behavioural Ecology and Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China 3 Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA 4 Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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