Why do placentas evolve? An evaluation of the life-history facilitation hypothesis in the fish genus Poeciliopsis

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 757-768

  Pires, Marcelo N ^a,b   Bassar, Ronald D ^a   Mcbride, Kevin E ^a   Regus, John U ^a   Garland, Theodore ^a   Reznick, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Life history evolution; Maternal effect; Phenotypic plasticity; Placenta; Placentation; Predation; Reproductive strategies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE AT MATURITY; CYPRINID; FOOD PROVISIONING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; MATURATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SIZE AT MATURITY;

POECILIOPSIS;

EID: 79959839692     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01842.x     Document Type: Article

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