Do placental species abort offspring? Testing an assumption of the Trexler-DeAngelis model

Functional Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 323-331

  Banet, A I ^a   Reznick, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Matrotrophy; Offspring size; Placenta; Poeciliopsis; Trexler DeAngelis

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LIPID; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL CARE; MODEL TEST;

PISCES; POECILIOPSIS; POECILIOPSIS MONACHA; POECILIOPSIS PROLIFICA;

EID: 40949139788     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01367.x     Document Type: Article

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