Clutch frequency affects the offspring size-number trade-off in lizards

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Xia, Yuan ^b   Ji, Xiang ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG SIZE; FEMALE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; VITELLOGENESIS; ANIMAL; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

EREMIAS ARGUS; LACERTIDAE; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OVUM; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 79551568007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016585     Document Type: Article

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