Costly Infidelity: Low Lifetime Fitness of Extra-Pair Offspring in a Passerine Bird

Extra-pair copulation (EPC) is widespread in socially monogamous species, but its evolutionary benefits remain controversial. Indirect genetic benefit hypotheses postulate that females engage in EPC to produce higher quality extra-pair offspring (EPO) than within-pair offspring (WPO). In contrast, t...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Yu-Hsun, Schroeder, Julia, Winney, Isabel, Burke, Terry, Nakagawa, Shinichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Original Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24931726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12475

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24931726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12475

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