Place of publishing:

Białowieża

Description:

Onset and duration of microtine reproduction varies with the cycle phase in cyclic populations and is temporally stable in non-cyclic populations. The reproductive variation has been related to annually more or less varying growth rates, including varying contents of chemical stimuli of food plants, or to effects of maternal condition, especially nutrition, on the reproductive performance of the succeeding generation. To distinguish between these two explanations, immatures of Microtus agrestis were caught at annual density peaks in south Sweden and were kept under constant laboratory conditions by natural light and on a simplified food with stable composition for one year or until reproduction ended. Their yung were kept in exactly the same way.

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Relation:

Acta Theriologica

Volume:

34

Issue:

8

Start page:

125

End page:

132

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:11366 ; 10.4098/AT.arch.89-8

Source:

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Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open