Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1726, 2011, Pages 163-170

  Horváthová, Terézia ^a,b   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^c   Uller, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Birds; Differential allocation; Maternal effects; Parental care; Phenotypic plasticity; Reproductive investment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTIOXIDANT; BIRD; FEMALE; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MALE; MATE ATTRACTION; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EID: 81855224802     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0663     Document Type: Article

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