Relationships between brood size and off
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Shikano, Takahito ;Taniguchi, Nobuhiko
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Maternal effects can form an important source of variation in offspring fitness and have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. To explore genetic control for body size of newborn offspring, the present study examined maternal brood size and offspring body size in 14 strains and perform