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Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder
Kin selection theory predicts that animals should direct costly care where inclusive fitness gains are highest. Individuals may achieve this by directing care at closer relatives, yet evidence for such discrimination in vertebrates is equivocal. We investigated patterns of cooperative care in banded...
Autores principales: | Vitikainen, Emma I. K., Marshall, Harry H., Thompson, Faye J., Sanderson, Jenni L., Bell, Matthew B. V., Gilchrist, Jason S., Hodge, Sarah J., Nichols, Hazel J., Cant, Michael A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2384 |
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