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Male care and life history traits in mammals

Male care has energetic and opportunity costs, and is more likely to evolve when males gain greater certainty of paternity or when future mating opportunities are scarce. However, little is known about the substantial benefits that males may provide to females and offspring. Using phylogenetic compa...

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Autores principales: West, Hannah E. R., Capellini, Isabella
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/PMC4911630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27299954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11854