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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Biology, Evolution and Development"”.
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Maternal Effects on Brood Reduction in Common Grackles
… can have positive effects on nestling growth and survival especially early in the nesting period, but those effects are largely overwhelmed by asynchronous hatching. Adaptive evidence is lacking in the two other maternal effects---sex and yolk hormones---in which I focused. I found that …
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Character displacement in Burkholderia biofilm communities and the effect of adaptive history on the evolution of niche breadth
… is essential for maintaining highly productive and stable ecosystems, yet the mechanisms that generate and preserve diversity are unknown in many habitats. Competition for shared resources may cause selection to favor niche specialization, which reduces competition and reinforces diversity. If …