Separating maternal and litter-size effects on early postnatal growth in two species of altricial small mammals

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 826-834

  Rödel, Heiko G ^a   Prager, Geraldine ^a   Stefanski, Volker ^a,c   von Holst, Dietrich ^a   Hudson, Robyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early life conditions; Maternal effects; Offspring; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Rattus norvegicus; Senescence; Siblings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SENESCENCE;

EID: 40749133272     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.11.047     Document Type: Article

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