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Mother Knows Best: Dominant Females Determine Offspring Dispersal in Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

BACKGROUND: Relatedness between group members is central to understanding the causes of animal dispersal. In many group-living mammals this can be complicated as extra-pair copulations result in offspring having varying levels of relatedness to the dominant animals, leading to a potential conflict b...

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Autores principales: Whiteside, Helen M., Dawson, Deborah A., Soulsbury, Carl D., Harris, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022145