Unit pricing: Economics and the evolution of litter size

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-190

  Sikes, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetics; Lactation; Litter size; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031906042     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006531728971     Document Type: Article

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