Snakes allocate amino acids acquired during vitellogenesis to offspring: Are capital and income breeding consequences of variable foraging success?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 390-404

  Van Dyke, James U ^a   Beaupre, Steven J ^a   Kreider, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics lecithotrophy life history evolution reproductive ecology stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT BUDGET; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SNAKE; VIVIPARITY;

SERPENTES;

EID: 84859922179     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01880.x     Document Type: Article

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