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On the number of sons born and shorter lifespan in historical Sami mothers

2010; Royal Society; Volume: 277; Issue: 1696 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.2009.2114

1471-2954

Samuli Helle, Virpi Lummaa, Jukka Jokela,

Birth, Development, and Health

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B.2772909–2911http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2114SectionRestricted accessComments and invited repliesOn the number of sons born and shorter lifespan in historical Sami mothers Samuli Helle Samuli Helle Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Virpi Lummaa Virpi Lummaa Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Jukka Jokela Jukka Jokela EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and ETH-Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Samuli Helle Samuli Helle Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , Virpi Lummaa Virpi Lummaa Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Jukka Jokela Jukka Jokela EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and ETH-Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:16 June 2010https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2114ReferencesAllison P. 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