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Nest defense in the face of cuckoldry: evolutionary rather than facultative adaptation to chronic paternity loss

BACKGROUND: Raising unrelated offspring is typically wasteful of parental resources and so individuals are expected to reduce or maintain low levels of parental effort when their parentage is low. This can involve facultative, flexible adjustments of parental care to cues of lost parentage in the cu...

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Autores principales: Zimmermann, Holger, Fritzsche, Karoline, Henshaw, Jonathan M., Katongo, Cyprian, Banda, Taylor, Makasa, Lawrence, Sefc, Kristina M., Bose, Aneesh P. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6829816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31684856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1528-7