Of chickens and eggs: Diverging propagule size of iteroparous and semelparous organisms

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 232-238

  Einum, Sigurd ^a   Fleming, Ian A ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age structure; Bet hedging; Environmental variability; Life history; Offspring size; Propagule size; Reproductive strategy

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; AGE STRUCTURE; BET-HEDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FITNESS; NATURAL SELECTION; PROPAGULE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALMONID; SEMELPARITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

GALLUS GALLUS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 33947198733     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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