Resource availability and plasticity in offspring provisioning: Embryo nourishment in sailfin mollies

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1370-1381

  Trexler, Joei C ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Fecundity; Lecithotrophy; Life history; Matrotrophy; Phenotypic plasticity; Poecilia latipinna; Reproductive investment; Resource availability; Scope for reproduction; Trade off; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA; POECILIA LATIPINNA; POECILIIDAE;

OFFSPRING PROVISIONING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SAILFIN MOLLY;

EID: 0030613979     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1370:RAAPIO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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