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The scent of infanticide risk? Behavioural allocation to current and future reproduction in response to mating opportunity and familiarity with intruder

ABSTRACT: The killing of young by unrelated males is widespread in the animal kingdom. In short-lived small rodents, females can mate immediately after delivery (post-partum oestrus) and invest in future reproduction, but infanticide may put the nestlings, their current reproductive investment, at r...

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Autores principales: Eccard, J. A., Reil, D., Folkertsma, R., Schirmer, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2585-4