Nonlinear continuum of egg size-number trade-offs in a snake: Is egg-size variation fitness related?

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 689-696

  Ji, Xiang ^a,b   Du, Wei Guo ^b   Qu, Yan Fu ^a   Lin, Long Hui ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese cobra; Growth; Manipulating clutch size; Naja atra; Offspring survival

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG SIZE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; HATCHING; HORMONE; LIFE HISTORY; NONLINEARITY; OVIPOSITION; SNAKE; SURVIVAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CHINA; CLUTCH SIZE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; OOCYTE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNAKE; SURVIVAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHINA; CLUTCH SIZE; COBRA; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVUM; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

NAJA ATRA;

EID: 62149112595     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1252-2     Document Type: Article

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