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• Evolutionary trade-offs in a small mammal : a quantitative genetics approach 

  Schroderus, Eero (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  Limited resources force individuals to trade-off between life-history traits. A vast diversity of life-history strategies, which optimally combine life history traits, can be found. Knowledge of the genetic basis of ...

• Socio-Reproductive Conflicts and the Father’s Curse Dilemma 

  Mökkönen, Mikael; Koskela, Esa; Procyshyn, Tanya; Crespi, Bernard (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

  Evolutionary conflicts between males and females can manifest over sexually antagonistic interactions at loci or over sexually antagonistic interests within a locus. The latter form of conflict, intralocus sexual conflict, ...

• Cost of reproduction and offspring quality in the evolution of reproductive effort 

  Oksanen, Tuula (University of Jyväskylä, 2002)

  Any organism has a limited amount of resources, which have to be partitioned among several activities such as maintenance, growth and reproduction. Reproductive effort is defined as the proportion of parental resources ...

• Effects of the early life environment on the morphology, behaviour and reproductive success of male bank voles (Myodes glareolus) 

  Mikkonen, Anne-Mari (2019)

  Yksilöt ovat herkkiä varhaiselämän kasvuympäristössä tapahtuville muutoksille, jotka voivat vaikuttaa myös ilmiasuun aikuisena. Varhaiselämän elinolosuhteilla voikin olla kauaskantoisia vaikutuksia yksilön elinkiertoon. ...

• New insights on the role of ecology and life-history in social evolution 

  Avila, Piret (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  Biological altruism, defined as a behaviour that benefits others at an apparent cost to the focal individual, is found abundantly across different levels of biological organization. While kin selection has been useful for ...