Highly fecund mothers sacrifice offspring survival to maximize fitness

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6786, 2000, Pages 565-567

  Einum, Sigurd ^a,b   Fleming, Ian A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; MATERNAL EFFECT; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SALMON; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 0034213425     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35014600     Document Type: Article

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