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Maternal age at maturation underpins contrasting behavior in offspring

In species where parental care occurs primarily via the provisioning of eggs, older females tend to produce larger offspring that have better fitness prospects. Remarkably however, a relationship between age of mother and fitness of offspring has also been reported independently of effects on offspr...

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Autores principales: Burton, Tim, Robertsen, Grethe, Stewart, David C., McKelvey, Simon, Armstrong, John D., Metcalfe, Neil B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5027624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw073

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