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Concurrent Lactation and Pregnancy: Pregnant Domestic Horse Mares Do Not Increase Mother-Offspring Conflict during Intensive Lactation

Lactation is the most energy demanding part of parental care in mammals, so parent-offspring conflict arises over milk provided by the mother. In some species females commonly become pregnant shortly after parturition of previous young. This further intensifies mother-offspring conflict due to concu...

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Autores principales: Bartošová, Jitka, Komárková, Martina, Dubcová, Jana, Bartoš, Luděk, Pluháček, Jan
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/PMC3154196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21853024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022068

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