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Female reproductive competition explains variation in prenatal investment in wild banded mongooses

Female intrasexual competition is intense in cooperatively breeding species where offspring compete locally for resources and helpers. In mammals, females have been proposed to adjust prenatal investment according to the intensity of competition in the postnatal environment (a form of ‘predictive ad...

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Autores principales: Inzani, Emma L., Marshall, Harry H., Sanderson, Jennifer L., Nichols, Hazel J., Thompson, Faye J., Kalema-Zikusoka, Gladys, Hodge, Sarah J., Cant, Michael A., Vitikainen, Emma I. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26817515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20013