Maternal effort and male quality in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1427, 1999, Pages 1495-1499

  Oksanen, Tuula A ^a   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Horne, Taina J ^a   Koskela, Esa ^a   Mappes, Johanna ^a   Mappes, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Heritability of mating success; Life history; Male quality; Mammals; Maternal effort; Offspring quality

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HERITABILITY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATING; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOLE;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033595153     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0806     Document Type: Article

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