Energetic trade-offs between brain size and offspring production: Marsupials confirm a general mammalian pattern

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 173-179

  Isler, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooperative care; Encephalization; Eutheria; Life history; Maternal energy hypothesis; Metatheria

Indexed keywords

ALLOMATERNAL CARE; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; MARSUPIALIA; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCTION;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 79951537627     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000123     Document Type: Article

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