Overcoming an evolutionary conflict: removal of a reproductive organ greatly increases locomotor performance.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 19, 2004

Authors

Margarita Ramos1, Duncan J Irschick, Terry E Christenson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 310 Dinwiddie Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.

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