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Helpful Female Subordinate Cichlids Are More Likely to Reproduce

BACKGROUND: In many cooperatively breeding vertebrates, subordinates assist a dominant pair to raise the dominants' offspring. Previously, it has been suggested that subordinates may help in payment for continued residency on the territory (the ‘pay-to-stay hypothesis’), but payment might also...

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Autores principales: Heg, Dik, Jutzeler, Eva, Mitchell, Jeremy S., Hamilton, Ian M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19421320
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005458