Effect of the early-life nutritional environment on fecundity and fertility of mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1534, 2009, Pages 3419-3427

  Gardner, D S ^a   Ozanne, S E ^c   Sinclair, K D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fertility; Nutrition; Programming; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIET; FECUNDITY; FERTILITY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAMMAL; MATERNAL EFFECT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES;

EID: 72949108869     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0121     Document Type: Review

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