Delayed Selfing as an Optimal Mating Strategy in Preferentially Outcrossing Species: Theoretical Analysis of the Optimal Age at First Reproduction in Relation to Mate Availability

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 318-331

  Tsitrone, Anne ^a,d   Duperron, Sébastien ^b   David, Patrice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Inst Natl Rech Agronom SGAP M   (France)

Author keywords

Age at maturity; Life history evolution; Mating systems; Optimization model; Phenotypic plasticity; Resource reallocation

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; INBREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; INBREEDING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141479135     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375542     Document Type: Article

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