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Points of view: Why male cannibalism won't cause a female-biased OSR -- a comment on Smith and Wootton's paper

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Kvarnemo, C. Points of view: Why male cannibalism won't cause a female-biased OSR -- a comment on Smith and Wootton's paper. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 8, 93–98 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008816601559

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