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Maternal effects of egg size on emu Dromaius novaehollandiae egg composition and hatchling phenotype.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Feb 2004
Dzialowski Edward M, Sotherland Paul R
Abstract excerpt
Parental investment in eggs and, consequently, in offspring can profoundly influence the phenotype, survival and ultimately evolutionary fitness of an organism. Avian eggs are excellent model systems to examine maternal allocation of energy translated through egg size variation. We used the natur...
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