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From: Active parental care, reproductive performance, and a novel egg predator affecting reproductive investment in the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus

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Relationship between body size and egg production constraining/favoring brooding and the model species. a Hypothetical allometric relationship between body size and egg production (continuous curve), and brooding space (dashed curve) in marine invertebrates (after [34]). In the figure, the capacity for egg production increases faster than the space available for brooding. The conditions above are expected to favor brooding in small but not large marine invertebrates and determine heavy costs, in terms of reproductive investment, for large brooding marine invertebrates. b The Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus. Photo credit: J. Antonio Baeza

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