Do maternal food deprivation and offspring predator cues interactively affect maternal effort in fish?

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 708-721

  Segers, Francisca H I D ^a   Gerber, Barbara ^a   Taborsky, Barbara ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; CICHLID; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; MATERNAL EFFECT; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SURVIVAL;

CICHLIDAE; SIMOCHROMIS;

EID: 79960371235     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01922.x     Document Type: Article

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