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Mother and offspring fitness in an insect with maternal care: phenotypic trade-offs between egg number, egg mass and egg care

BACKGROUND: Oviparous females have three main options to increase their reproductive success: investing into egg number, egg mass and/or egg care. Although allocating resources to either of these three components is known to shape offspring number and size, potential trade-offs among them may have k...

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Autores principales: Koch, Lisa K, Meunier, Joël
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24913927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-125