Experience pays: offspring survival increases with female age
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Experience pays: offspring survival increases with female age.
Life-history theory predicts that, in long-lived organisms, effort towards reproduction will increase with age, and research from oviparous vertebrates largely supports this prediction. In reptiles, where parental care occurs primarily via provisioning of the egg, older females tend to produce larger eggs, which in turn produce larger hatchlings that have increased survival. We conducted an exp...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0573