Parent-offspring conflict in the evolution of vertebrate reproductive mode

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 635-653

  Crespi, Bernard ^a   Semeniuk, Christina ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Parent offspring conflict; Placentation; Reproductive mode; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; VERTEBRATE; VIVIPARITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MAMMALS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2642575984     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382734     Document Type: Review

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