Parental investment by skin feeding in a caecilian amphibian

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7086, 2006, Pages 926-929

  Kupfer, Alexander ^a   Müller, Hendrik ^a,b   Antoniazzi, Marta M ^c   Jared, Carlos ^c   Greven, Hartmut ^d   Nussbaum, Ronald A ^e   Wilkinson, Mark ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; GROWTH KINETICS; NUTRITION;

CAECILIAN AMPHIBIAN; NATURAL SELECTION; PARENTAL CARE; SKIN-FEEDING;

SKIN;

AMPHIBIAN; FEEDING; NUTRIENT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; FEEDING; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; VITELLOGENESIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BOULENGERULA TAITANUS; CAECILIA; GYMNOPHIONA;

EID: 33645893474     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04403     Document Type: Article

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