Are there benefits to being born asynchronously: An experimental test in a social lizard

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 208-216

  While, Geoffrey M ^a   Wapstra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egernia whitii; Hatching asynchrony; Maternal effects; Sibling rivalry; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH; HATCHING; LIZARD; MATERNAL EFFECT; MORTALITY RISK; SYNCHRONY;

AVES; EGERNIA WHITII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 38149129450     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm124     Document Type: Article

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