The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals
Thodoris Danis,
Antonis Rokas
Abstract:Gestation length, or the duration of pregnancy, is a critical component of mammalian reproductive biology. Eutherian mammals exhibit striking variation in their gestation lengths, which has traditionally been linked to and allometrically scales with variation in other life history traits, including body mass and lifespan. How the phenotypic landscape of gestation length variation, including its associations with body mass and lifespan variation, changed over mammalian evolution remains unknown. Phylogeny-infor… Show more
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