Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selection

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6799, 2000, Pages 985-988

  Sinervo, Barry ^a   Svensson, Erik ^a,b   Comendant, Tosha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GAME THEORY; NATURAL SELECTION; OFFSPRING PRODUCTION; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; INSECT; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; EGGS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; LIZARDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034739050     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35023149     Document Type: Article

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