Successful sons or advantaged daughters? The Trivers-Willard model and sex-biased maternal investment in ungulates

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 229-234

  Hewison, A J Mark ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; POLYGYNY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROGENY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; UNGULATE;

EID: 0033151467     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01592-X     Document Type: Review

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