Maternal effects, flight versus fecundity trade-offs, and offspring immune defence in the Speckled Wood butterfly, <it>Pararge aegeria</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Maternal condition can generate resource-related maternal effects through differential egg provisioning, and can greatly affect offspring performance. In the present study, the speckled wood butterfly <it>Pararge aegeria </i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/345 |