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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"offspring quality"”.
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Effects of Phase Feeding During Gestation on Gilt Performance, Offspring Quality and Robustness
… feed intake were measured. To assess piglet quality and robustness, cord blood cortisol, liver and muscle glycogen at birth, immunocrit, serum IGF-1 concentrations, piglet birth weight distribution, weekly BW, and weaned pig feed intake and immune responses were measured. Data were analyzed …
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The effects of dominance status on reproductive success and offspring quality in Japanese quail
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IMPORTANCE OF SLOW EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN OFFSPRING AND ADULT IMMUNE FUNCTION
Why species differ in rate of development and quality of offspring is a central question in life history theory. A physiological trade-off is thought to occur between the rate of development and enhancement of internal systems, such as immune function, which determine high offspring quality. For …
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IMPORTANCE OF SLOW EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT IN OFFSPRING AND ADULT IMMUNE FUNCTION
Why species differ in rate of development and quality of offspring is a central question in life history theory. A physiological trade-off is thought to occur between the rate of development and enhancement of internal systems, such as immune function, which determine high offspring quality. For …
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Ornamentation, Behavior, and Maternal Effects in the Female Northern Cardinal
… indicate a number of important known aspects of quality and are usually costly to maintain. However, the extent to which female specific traits, such as maternal effects, are indicated is less clear. It is predicted by the Good Parent Hypothesis that this information should be displayed through …
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Female preferences, paternity and fitness: A combined morphometric/molecular genetic study on Poecilia latipinna and Poecilia formosa
… molly) increase their reproductive success (quality or quantity of offspring) through indirect or direct benefits associated with the sperm. Since the male's genome is not incorporated in the reproduction of the gynogenetic P. formosa (AVISE ET AL. 1991; SCHARTL ET AL. 1995), they do not …
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Maternal investment tactics in cooperative breeding systems
… multiple individuals contribute to the care of offspring, the optimum level of investment for each carer depends on the behaviour of the others. Previous theoretical and empirical work has largely focused on carer contributions within a single stage of a breeding attempt, neglecting the …