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Interaction between maternal effects: onset of incubation and offspring sex in two populations of a passerine bird.
Oecologia - 1 May 2003
Badyaev Alexander V, Hill Geoffrey E, Beck Michelle L
Abstract excerpt
Maternal phenotype and maternal environment can profoundly affect the phenotype and fitness of offspring. Yet the causes of variation in such maternal effects are rarely known. Embryos in avian eggs cannot develop without being incubated and this creates an opportunity for maternal control of duration and onset of offspring development. However, females might adjust the start of incubation (e.g., coincident with...
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