Tradeoffs between quality of offspring and litter size: differences do not persist into adulthood

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1143-1151

  Sikes, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Compensatory growth; Grasshopper mice; Lactation; Onychomys; Reproduction; Reproductive tradeoff

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001157847     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383005     Document Type: Article

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