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Costs and Benefits to Pregnant Male Pipefish Caring for Broods of Different Sizes

Trade-offs between brood size and offspring size, offspring survival, parental condition or parental survival are classic assumptions in life history biology. A reduction in brood size may lessen these costs of care, but offspring mortality can also result in an energetic gain, if parents are able t...

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Autores principales: Sagebakken, Gry, Ahnesjö, Ingrid, Kvarnemo, Charlotta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27243937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156484