Mothers adjust egg size to helper number in a cooperatively breeding cichlid

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 652-657

  Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b   Skubic, Eva ^a,b   Bruintjes, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cichlids; Cooperative breeding; Intraspecific competition; Maternal effects; Maternal investment; Offspring size

Indexed keywords

ALLOPARENTAL CARE; BREEDING POPULATION; CICHLID; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EGG SIZE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATERNAL EFFECT; MORTALITY RISK; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PREDATION RISK;

CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

EID: 34547659392     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm026     Document Type: Article

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