Why do placentas evolve? A test of the life-history facilitation hypothesis in two clades in the genus Poeciliopsis representing two independent origins of placentas

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 999-1010

  Bassar, Ronald D ^a,b   Auer, Sonya K ^a,b   Reznick, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history evolution; Live bearing fish; Matrotrophy; Placenta

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CYPRINID; DRY MATTER; FACILITATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); LIFE HISTORY; MATURATION; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA; POECILIIDAE; POECILIOPSIS;

EID: 84904304623     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12233     Document Type: Article

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