Sibling competition in a brood-tending leech

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1600, 2006, Pages 2461-2466

  Burd, Martin ^a   Govedich, Fredric R ^a,b   Bateson, Laura ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size inequality; Glossiphoniidae; Parental care; Prey size hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BROOD REARING; FOOD PROVISIONING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEECH; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PREY SIZE; SIBLING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELOBDELLA PAPILLORNATA; LEECH; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREY; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GLOSSIPHONIIDAE; HELOBDELLA PAPILLORNATA; HIRUDINIDA;

EID: 33748981290     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3617     Document Type: Article

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