maternal investment
Maternal investment in Kaimanawa horses : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University
... parental investment in mammals have frequently used suckling behaviour to estimate energy transfer from mother to offspring, and consequently to measure maternal ...differential maternal ...
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Invasive egg predators and food availability interactively affect maternal investment in egg chemical defence
... no maternal care, females can alter the phenotype of eggs to protect them, for instance through chemical ...the maternal fitness benefits of sibling cannibalism are ...of maternal investment, ...
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Wild at heart? : differential maternal investment in wild and domesticated zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
... positive investment in favour of attractive males is thought to be a result of mothers trading off resource allocation between current and future reproductive events, initially termed the differential allocation ...
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Ecological and social constraints on maternal investment strategies
... of investment in the current offspring can significantly affect the length of the 'recovery period' needed before another birth can occur (Elwood and Broom 1978; Gittleman and Thompson ...
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Modeling population dynamics of solitary bees in relation to habitat quality
... on maternal investment, in particular on the female’s individual decisions about sex and size of ...individual maternal investment which is described as a functional response to fluctuations ...
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Aspects of behavioural ecology on captive feral goats (Capra Hircus L ) with emphasis on the mother offspring relationship : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Ecology at Massey University
... In the current study, apart from a small sex difference in the suckling frequency of single kids, measures of suckling behaviour gave no evidence of sex-biased maternal investment in fer[r] ...
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Maternal effects of egg size on emu Dromaius novaehollandiae egg composition and hatchling phenotype
... initially maternal in origin, found within the ...including maternal investment of nutrients and energy in eggs, will improve our understanding of the genesis and importance of maternal ...
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How effective are maternal effects at having effects?
... the maternal environment explained seven percent more variability (table 1c; D deviance c 20 2 Z ...among maternal environment charac- teristics indicate that maternal investment can make a ...
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Keßler, Melanie (2007): The AVP Deficit in LAB Mice:: Physiological and Behavioral Effects. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... A maternal influence in form of nursing and licking is assumed to have an impact on the future phenotype of the pups of the SHR/WKY rats and the HR/LR lines, as it is already mentioned for high and low LG-ABN rats ...
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Paternal attractiveness and the effects of differential allocation of parental investment
... Parameter Maternal investment into eggs Timing of breeding Clutch size Egg volume Yolk:albumen mass Yolk colour Yolk DHT concentration Yolk T concentration Parental care Nest attentivene[r] ...
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The Investment Choices to Deal with the Slowdown in Economic Growth—Based on the Analysis of the Effect of Human Capital Investment
... capital investment is the same as other forms of investment, which includes costs and ...on investment of human capi- tal was higher than that of physical capital, but China has great political ...
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Examining fish quality : the evaluation of the use of lipids as a measure of condition in wild Atlantic salmon
... studied. Maternal investment in offspring has been suggested to be influenced by body condition and that female salmon can adjust their fecundity when experiencing poor conditions (Jonsson et ...
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A review of technological investment and its effects on firm’s performance
... technological investment and firm’s ...technological investment and how it affects firm’s ...technological investment, but there are inadequate investigation focusing on technological ...
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An Investment Court System for the New Generation of EU Trade and Investment Agreements: A Discussion of the Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada
... potential investment dispute or litigation before the ...the Investment Court’s interpretation of EU law is not formally binding on domestic courts or the CJEU, it has nonetheless the potential to impact ...
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Effect of socioeconomic conditions on frequent complaints of pain in children: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
... was maternal educa- tion level (higher degree/fist degree/diploma/A, AS, S level/O level GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) A–C/GCSE D–G/none with international and other qualifications excluded), ...
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Mutual Fund Investor Preference and its Performance
... The Investment purposes are varies from many ...of investment in securities like share, bond, money market and ...skilled investment management and potential ...get investment firm shares from ...
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Prenatal smoking exposure and neuropsychiatric comorbidity of ADHD: a finnish nationwide population based cohort study
... to maternal smoking during pregnancy were given higher hyperactive-impulsive and oppositional scores if they were homozygous for the 10- repeat dopamine transporter gene allele ...
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Investment Pattern of Working Women in Dindigul District
... and Investment Habits of Working People in Coimbatore Town” brought out the fact that the most highly regarded form of investment among the people was investment in bank which ranked 90% other ...
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E Investment Banking: NextGen Investment
... Design the web based application software that can help people to get information and manage regarding their investment ideas. The system should work on databases of different data modeling schemas such as ...
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The association of fathers’ parental warmth and parenting stress to child behavior problems
... In the current study, the more frequently young children were spanked — regardless of whether mother, father, or both administered the punishment — the higher their odds of increased aggressive behavior two years later. ...
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