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Certainty of paternity in two coucal species with divergent sex roles: the devil takes the hindmost

BACKGROUND: Certainty of paternity is considered an important factor in the evolution of paternal care. Several meta-analyses across birds support this idea, particularly for species with altricial young. However, the role of certainty of paternity in the evolution and maintenance of exclusive pater...

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Autores principales: Safari, Ignas, Goymann, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6043945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30005606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1225-y