Widespread intraspecific organismal stoichiometry among populations of the Trinidadian guppy
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Rana W. El-Sabaawi*, Eugenia Zandonà, Tyler J. Kohler, Michael C. Marshall, Jennifer M. Moslemi, Joseph Travis, Andrés López-Sepulcre, Regis Ferriére, Catherine M. Pringle, Steven A. Thomas, David N. Reznick and Alexander S. Flecker Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA; Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA; School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583 0961, USA; Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 306025, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA; Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA; and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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