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Communal nursing in wild house mice is not a by-product of group living: Females choose

Communal nursing, the provision of milk to non-offspring, has been argued to be a non-adaptive by-product of group living. We used 2 years of field data from a wild house mouse population to investigate this question. Communal nursing never occurred among females that previously lacked overlap in ne...

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Autores principales: Weidt, Andrea, Lindholm, Anna K., König, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24389536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1130-6

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