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Pre-breeding food restriction promotes the optimization of parental investment in house mice, Mus musculus

Litter size is one of the most reliable state-dependent life-history traits that indicate parental investment in polytocous (litter-bearing) mammals. The tendency to optimize litter size typically increases with decreasing availability of resources during the period of parental investment. To determ...

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Autores principales: Dušek, Adam, Bartoš, Luděk, Sedláček, František
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5362082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28328991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173985