Watching sexy displays improves hatching success and offspring growth through maternal allocation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1699, 2010, Pages 3453-3460

  Loyau, Adeline ^a,b,c   Lacroix, Frédéric ^a  

^a Emirates Center for Wildlife Propagation (ECWP)   (Morocco)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Fertility; Mate choice; Maternal investment; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; POULTRY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TESTOSTERONE; VIABILITY;

AVES;

EID: 78149241306     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0473     Document Type: Article

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