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Among-sibling differences in the phenotypes of juvenile fish depend on their location within the egg mass and maternal dominance rank.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jan 2013
Burton Tim, Hoogenboom M O, Beevers N D, Armstrong J D, Metcalfe N B
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We investigated whether among-sibling differences in the phenotypes of juvenile fish were systematically related to the position in the egg mass where each individual developed during oogenesis. We sampled eggs from the front, middle and rear thirds of the egg mass in female brown trout of known dominance rank. In the resulting juveniles, we then measured traits that are related to individual fitness: body size,...
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