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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |