Mothers determine offspring size in response to own juvenile growth conditions

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-228

  Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlids; Egg size; Life history; Maternal effects; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH BIOLOGY; JUVENILE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL EFFECT; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG SIZE; FEEDING; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING;

CICHLIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 33745310063     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0422     Document Type: Article

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