Differential allocation in a lekking bird: Females lay larger eggs and are more likely to have male chicks when they mate with less related males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1774, 2013, Pages

  Sardell, Rebecca J ^a   DuVal, Emily H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compatibility; Differential allocation; Inbreeding avoidance; Inbreeding depression; Maternal effects; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EGG SIZE; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MALE; MORTALITY; PARENTAL CARE; PROBABILITY;

AVES; CHIROXIPHIA LANCEOLATA;

EID: 84887528303     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2386     Document Type: Article

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