Commentary: Parental care and the proximate links between maternal effects and offspring fitness

Oecologia

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1089-1092

  Dugas, Matthew B ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Begging; Carotenoids; Inclusive fitness; Maternal effects; Offspring parent communication; Parent offspring conflict

Indexed keywords

XANTHOPHYLL;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; LUTEIN; MALE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84925539089     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3266-x     Document Type: Article

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