A trade-off-invariant life-history rule for optimal offspring size

Nature

Volumn 376, Issue 6539, 1995, Pages 418-419

  Charnov, Eric L ^a   Downhower, Jerry F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREEDING; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LIFESPAN; LITTER SIZE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

OPTIMAL OFFSPRING SIZE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0028976110     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/376418a0     Document Type: Article

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