A model for optimal offspring size in fish, including live-bearing and parental effects

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Jorgensen, Christian ^a   Auer, Sonya K ^b   Reznick, David N ^b  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth rate; Life history evolution; Live bearing; Maternal effects; Mortality; Offspring size

Indexed keywords

CYPRINID; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SIZE EFFECT; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OVOVIVIPARITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVOVIVIPARITY;

POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE;

EID: 79955419171     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659622     Document Type: Article

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