The adaptive significance of maternal effects

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 403-407

  Mousseau, Timothy A ^a   Fox, Charles W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MATERNAL CARE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE;

EVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REVIEW; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0031680550     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01472-4     Document Type: Review

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