Male attractiveness regulates daughter fecundity non-genetically via maternal investment

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1728, 2012, Pages 523-528

  Gilbert, Lucy ^a,b   Williamson, Kathryn A ^a   Graves, Jefferson A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egg resources; Maternal effects; Paternal effects; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE ATTRACTION; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; PATERNAL EFFECT; PERCEPTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

EID: 84055218170     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0962     Document Type: Article

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