Maternal investment, sibling competition, and offspring survival with increasing litter size and parity in pigs (Sus scrofa)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1159-1167

  Andersen, Inger Lise ^a   Nævdal, Eric ^b   Bøe, Knut Egil ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Frisch Centre   (Norway)

Author keywords

Litter size; Maternal behaviour; Piglet survival; Sows

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DOMESTIC SPECIES; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LITTER SIZE; MORTALITY; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PIG; SIBLING; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; WEANING; WEIGHT;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 79956124854     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1128-4     Document Type: Article

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