A Comparative Analysis of Allometry for Sexual Size Dimorphism: Assessing Rensch's Rule

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  1997

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1997-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1086/286004
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