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Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle’s carrion nest

It is well-known that features of animal nest architecture can be explained by fitness benefits gained by the offspring housed within. Here we focus on the little-tested suggestion that the fitness costs associated with building and maintaining a nest should additionally account for aspects of its a...

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Autores principales: De Gasperin, Ornela, Duarte, Ana, Troscianko, Jolyon, Kilner, Rebecca M.
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/PMC5062497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27734965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep35293