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Trait Trade-offs

Trait Trade-Offs is a theoretical construct in evolutionary biology that refers to the phenomenon whereby the enhancement of one phenotypic trait, such as a secondary sexual characteristic, necessarily results in the reduction of another due to limited genetic, developmental, or resource-based allocations under stabilizing selection pressures.

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Trait Trade-off

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Trade-Offs in Life-History Evolution

Stephen C. Stearns · Functional Ecology · 1989 · 2.9K citations

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Trade-Offs (and Constraints) in Organismal Biology

Theodore Garland, Cynthia J. Downs, Anthony R. Ives · Physiological and Biochemical Zoology · 2021 · 256 citations

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Male Dimorphism as a Consequence of Sexual Selection

Madhav Gadgil · The American Naturalist · 1972 · 235 citations

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Functional Trait Strategies of Trees in Dry and Wet Tropical Forests Are Similar but Differ in Their Consequences for Succession

Madelon Lohbeck, Edwin Lebrija‐Trejos, Miguel Martı́nez-Ramos et al. · PLoS ONE · 2015 · 164 citations · Full text

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Covariances Between Traits Deriving From Successive Allocations of a Resource

G. de Jong · Functional Ecology · 1993 · 144 citations

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Authors

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    Derek A. Roff

    McGill University, Canada

    3 publications · 98 citations

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  2. MB
    Michael B. Bonsall

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 218 citations

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  3. AM
    Aditee Mitra

    Swansea University, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 70 citations

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  4. KJ
    Kevin J. Flynn

    Swansea University, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 70 citations

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  5. JA
    John A. Raven

    University of Dundee, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 70 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    192 citations

  2. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    128 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    282 citations

  4. University of Dundee

    Dundee, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    70 citations

  5. James Hutton Institute

    Dundee, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    70 citations

  6. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    229 citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    202 citations

  8. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    94 citations

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  1. The American Naturalist

    AN · 4 publications · 395 citations

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  2. Journal of Evolutionary Biology

    JEB · 3 publications · 166 citations

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  3. Evolution

    3 publications · 97 citations

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  4. Oecologia

    2 publications · 46 citations

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  5. International Journal of Plant Sciences

    IJPS · 2 publications · 26 citations

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