ArticleScience advances2020
Evolutionary trade-off in reproduction of Cambrian arthropods.
Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Ghost trade-offs: negative correlations between beneficial traits may be caused by other mechanisms than trade-offs.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2026Review
- The role of mitotype variation and positive epistasis in trait differences between Saccharomyces species.Genetics · 2026Article
- Combining soft-bodied and three-dimensional fossils to reveal evolutionary modifications in early lingulellotretid brachiopods.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran-Cambrian metazoans.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Article
- The earliest known brood care in insects.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Functional importance of the mandibular skeleto-muscular system in the bivalved arthropod Heterocypris incongruens (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cyprididae).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2022Article
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Abstract
Trade-offs play a crucial role in the evolution of life-history strategies of extant organisms by shaping traits such as growth pattern, reproductive investment, and lifespan. One important trade-off is between offspring number and energy (nutrition, parental care, etc.) allocated to individual offspring. Exceptional Cambrian fossils allowed us to trace the earliest evidence of trade-offs in arthropod reproduction. †
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