Ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism revisited: Females grow for a longer time and also faster

• Virve Sõber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Virve Sõber, Siiri-Lii Sandre, Toomas Tammaru

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: virve.sober@ut.ee

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5601-9446

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• Siiri-Lii Sandre ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Virve Sõber, Siiri-Lii Sandre, Toomas Tammaru

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Toomas Esperk ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Tiit Teder ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Toomas Tammaru

  Contributed equally to this work with: Virve Sõber, Siiri-Lii Sandre, Toomas Tammaru

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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