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Paternal Care Decreases Foraging Activity and Body Condition, but Does Not Impose Survival Costs to Caring Males in a Neotropical Arachnid

Exclusive paternal care is the rarest form of parental investment in nature and theory predicts that the maintenance of this behavior depends on the balance between costs and benefits to males. Our goal was to assess costs of paternal care in the harvestman Iporangaia pustulosa, for which the benefi...

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Autores principales: Requena, Gustavo S., Buzatto, Bruno A., Martins, Eduardo G., Machado, Glauco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23071616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046701