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SUBMITTER: Cohen AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5720690 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cohen Alan A AA Isaksson Caroline C Salguero-Gómez Roberto R
PloS one 20171207 12
Evolutionary studies often assume that energy is the primary resource (i.e. "currency") at the heart of the survival-reproduction trade-off, despite recent evidence to the contrary. The evolutionary consequences of having a single trade-off currency versus multiple competing currencies are unknown. Using simulations, we modeled the evolution of either a single physiological currency between reproduction and survival, or of multiple such currencies. For a wide array of model specifications varyin ...[more]