QUASIREPLICATION AND THE CONTRACT OF ERROR: Lessons from Sex Ratios, Heritabilities and Fluctuating Asymmetry

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

• Publication date

  2000-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.ECOLSYS.31.1.441
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