Adaptive adjustment of offspring sex ratio and maternal reproductive effort in an iteroparous mammal.
Large mammals in seasonal environments have a pattern of high-reproductive synchrony in spring, but how the timing of reproduction affects resource allocation decisions at different stages of the reproductive cycle remains largely unexplored. By manipulating the timing of conception in reindeer (Ran...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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