The ‘male escape hypothesis’: sex-biased metamorphosis in response to climatic drivers in a facultatively paedomorphic amphibian
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0176
Abstract: Paedomorphosis is a major evolutionary process that bypasses metamorphosis and allows reproduction in larvae. In newts and salamanders, it can be facultative with paedomorphs retaining gills and metamorphs dispersing. The evolution of these developmental processes… read more here.
Keywords: male escape; sex biased; climatic drivers; sex ... See more keywords