Context dependence of maternal effects: testing assumptions of optimal egg size, differential, and sex allocation models

Mother and offspring fitness in an insect with maternal care: phenotypic trade-offs between egg number, egg mass and egg care

(2014) Lisa K Koch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Persistent sex-by-environment effects on offspring fitness and sex-ratio adjustment in a wild bird population

(2014) E. Keith Bowers et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Females allocate differentially to offspring size and number in response to male effects on female and offspring fitness

(2014) H. K. Kindsvater et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmental Quality Predicts Optimal Egg Size in the Wild

(2013) Njal Rollinson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Phenotypic and fitness consequences of maternal nest-site choice across multiple early life stages

(2013) Timothy S. Mitchell et al.   ECOLOGY

The relationship between offspring size and fitness: integrating theory and empiricism

(2013) Njal Rollinson et al.   ECOLOGY

Colonisation of toxic environments drives predictable life-history evolution in livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae)

(2013) Rüdiger Riesch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Females Paired with More Attractive Males Show Reduced Oxidative Damage: Possible Direct Benefits of Mate Choice in Pied Flycatchers

(2013) Juan Moreno et al.   ETHOLOGY

All eggs are made equal: meta-analysis of egg sexual size dimorphism in birds

(2013) J. Rutkowska et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Environment-dependent selection on mate choice in a natural population of birds

(2012) Matthew R. Robinson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cross-fostering eggs reveals that female collared flycatchers adjust clutch sex ratios according to parental ability to invest in offspring

(2012) E. Keith Bowers et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Hormonal regulation of offspring begging and mediation of parent–offspring conflict

(2011) Per T. Smiseth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A review and perspective on context-dependent genetic effects of extra-pair mating in birds

(2011) Tim Schmoll   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Manipulating developmental stress reveals sex-specific effects of egg size on offspring phenotype

(2011) O. P. LOVE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Superiority of extra-pair offspring: maternal but not genetic effects as revealed by a mixed cross-fostering design

(2011) MILOŠ KRIST et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

(2011) T. Horvathova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Males are sensitive — sex-dependent effect of rearing conditions on nestling growth

(2010) Balázs Rosivall et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Egg size and offspring quality: a meta-analysis in birds

(2010) Miloš Krist   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

INBREEDING DEPRESSION INCREASES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND META-ANALYSIS

(2010) Charles W. Fox et al.   EVOLUTION

Survival benefits of post-fledging care: experimental approach to a critical part of avian reproductive strategies

(2010) Martin U. Grüebler et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Differential allocation and compensation: who deserves the silver spoon?

(2009) Irja Ida Ratikainen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The effect of parental quality and malaria infection on nestling performance in the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

(2009) Eszter Szöllősi et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Short- and long-term effects of egg size and feeding frequency on offspring quality in the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

(2009) Miloš Krist   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Reproductive investment when mate quality varies: differential allocation versus reproductive compensation

(2009) W. E. Harris et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

SEX-SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF ALBUMEN REMOVAL AND NEST ENVIRONMENT MANIPULATION ON BARN SWALLOW NESTLINGS

(2008) Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati et al.   ECOLOGY

Reproductive compensation

(2008) PATRICIA ADAIR GOWATY   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Offspring Size Plasticity in Response to Intraspecific Competition: An Adaptive Maternal Effect across Life‐History Stages

(2007) Richard M. Allen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Competition as a selective mechanism for larger offspring size in guppies

(2007) Farrah Bashey   OIKOS