Surf and turf: predation by egg-eating snakes has led to the evolution of parental care in a terrestrial lizard

Animals display a great diversity of parental care tactics that ultimately enhance offspring survival, but how such behaviors evolve remains unknown for most systems. Here, we studied the evolution of maternal care, in the form of nest guarding, in a single population of long-tailed sun skink (Eutro...

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Autores principales: Pike, David A., Clark, Rulon W., Manica, Andrea, Tseng, Hui-Yun, Hsu, Jung-Ya, Huang, Wen-San
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/PMC4768160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26915464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22207

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26915464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22207

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