How to put all your eggs in one basket: Empirical patterns of offspring provisioning throughout a mother's lifetime

American Naturalist

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 520-529

  Plaistow, Stewart J ^a,d   St Clair, James J H ^b   Grant, Jane ^c   Benton, Tim G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive death; Fitness; Maternal effects; Reproductive effort; Sibling rivalry

Indexed keywords

EGG; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; MATERNAL EFFECT; MITE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SIBLING; SOIL BIOTA;

ACARI;

PHEROMONE;

ACARIDAE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DIET; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; YEAST; ZYGOTE;

ACARIDAE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIET; FEMALE; MALE; MOTHERS; PHEROMONES; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); YEASTS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 34948876874     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521238     Document Type: Article

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