Learning enhances female control over reproductive investment in the Japanese quail

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3327-3334

  Rutkowska, Joanna ^a,b   Adkins Regan, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body condition; Fertilization success; Mate familiarity; Maternal effects; Pavlovian conditioning; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EGG SIZE; FAMILIARITY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMEBIRD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE RECOGNITION; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATING SUCCESS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SCENT MARKING; SEX ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REPRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ZYGOTE;

COTURNIX JAPONICA;

EID: 70349419620     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0762     Document Type: Article

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