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Male age is associated with extra-pair paternity, but not with extra-pair mating behaviour

Extra-pair paternity is the result of copulation between a female and a male other than her social partner. In socially monogamous birds, old males are most likely to sire extra-pair offspring. The male manipulation and female choice hypotheses predict that age-specific male mating behaviour could e...

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Autores principales: Girndt, Antje, Chng, Charlotte Wen Ting, Burke, Terry, Schroeder, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26649-1