Big mothers invest more in daughters - Reversed sex allocation in a weakly polygynous mammal

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 430-437

  Hewison, A J Mark ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b   Kjellander, Petter ^a,c   Toïgo, Carole ^d   Liberg, Olof ^c   Delorme, Daniel ^d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

Author keywords

Body condition; Body mass; Maternal care; Maternal investment; Phenotypic quality; Roe deer; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; DEER; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; SEX ALLOCATION;

CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 17444431242     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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