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Kin selection and polygyny: can relatedness lower the polygyny threshold?

Resource polygyny incurs costs of having to share breeding resources for female breeders. When breeding with a relative, however, such costs may be lessened by indirect fitness benefits through kin selection, while benefits from mutualistic behaviour, such as communal defence, may increase. If so, f...

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Autores principales: Grønstøl, Gaute, Blomqvist, Donald, Pauliny, Angela, Wagner, Richard H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26543568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140409