Nutrition shapes life-history evolution across species
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Nutrition shapes life-history evolution across species.
Nutrition is a key component of life-history theory, yet we know little about how diet quality shapes life-history evolution across species. Here, we test whether quantitative measures of nutrition are linked to life-history evolution across 96 species of butterflies representing over 50 independent diet shifts. We find that butterflies feeding on high nitrogen host plants as larvae are more fe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2764