Can number and size of offspring increase simultaneously? - A central life-history trade-off reconsidered

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schroderus, Eero ^a   Koivula, Minna ^b   Koskela, Esa ^a   Mappes, Tapio ^a   Oksanen, Tuula A ^a   Poikonen, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birth size; Genetic correlation; Heritability; Litter size; Myodes glareolus

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTER SIZE; PALEARCTIC ECOZONE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RODENT; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859040984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-44     Document Type: Article

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