Sex allocation in yellow-legged gulls (Laws michahellis) depends on nutritional constraints on production of large last eggs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1685, 2010, Pages 1203-1208

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Romano, Maria ^a   Caprioli, Manuela ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b   Rubolini, Diego ^a   Fasola, Mauro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Egg size; Food availability; Laying order; Maternal effects; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; EMBRYO; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; SEABIRD; SEX ALLOCATION;

AVES; LARUS MICHAHELLIS;

EID: 77951492266     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2012     Document Type: Article

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