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The relationship between egg size and helper number in cooperative breeders: a meta-analysis across species

BACKGROUND: Life history theory predicts that mothers should adjust reproductive investment depending on benefits of current reproduction and costs of reduced future reproductive success. These costs and benefits may in turn depend on the breeding female’s social environment. Cooperative breeders pr...

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Autores principales: Dixit, Tanmay, English, Sinead, Lukas, Dieter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5704713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29188141
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4028