Age-specific breeding success in a wild mammalian population: Selection, constraint, restraint and senescence

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3261-3274

  Dugdale, Hannah L ^a,b   Pope, Lisa C ^b   Newman, Chris ^a   MacDonald, David W ^a   Burke, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age specific breeding success; constraint hypothesis; Meles meles; restraint hypothesis; selective disappearance; senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 79960625170     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05167.x     Document Type: Article

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