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Female attractiveness affects paternal investment: experimental evidence for male differential allocation in blue tits
INTRODUCTION: The differential allocation hypothesis (DAH) predicts that individuals should adjust their parental investment to their current mate’s quality. Although in principle the DAH holds for both sexes, male adjustment of parental investment has only been tested in a few experimental studies,...
Autores principales: | Mahr, Katharina, Griggio, Matteo, Granatiero, Michela, Hoi, Herbert |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3419069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22731522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-9-14 |
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