How do cuticular hydrocarbons evolve? Physiological constraints and climatic and biotic selection pressures act on a complex functional trait

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2017-03-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2016.1727PMID 28298343PMCID PMC5360911
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