Adaptive consequences and heritable basis of asynchronous hatching in Nicrophorus vespilloides

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 899-907

  Smiseth, Per T ^a   Hwang, Wenbe ^b   Steiger, Sandra ^c   Müller, Josef K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; HATCHING; HERITABILITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45749157536     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16473.x     Document Type: Article

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