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Sexually Selected Infanticide in a Polygynous Bat

BACKGROUND: Adult individuals of many species kill unrelated conspecific infants for several adaptive reasons ranging from predation or resource competition to the prevention of misdirected parental care. Moreover, infanticide can increase the reproductive success of the aggressor by killing the off...

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Autores principales: Knörnschild, Mirjam, Ueberschaer, Katja, Helbig, Maria, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.
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/PMC3174983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21949829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025001