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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...
Autores principales: | Heg, Dik, Jutzeler, Eva, Mitchell, Jeremy S., Hamilton, Ian M. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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