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Indirect fitness benefits through extra‐pair mating are large for an inbred minority, but cannot explain widespread infidelity among red‐winged fairy‐wrens

Extra‐pair paternity (EPP) has been suggested to improve the genetic quality of offspring, but evidence has been equivocal. Benefits of EPP may be only available to specific individuals or under certain conditions. Red‐winged fairy‐wrens have extremely high levels of EPP, suggesting fitness benefits...

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Autores principales: Lichtenauer, Wendy, van de Pol, Martijn, Cockburn, Andrew, Brouwer, Lyanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30666623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.13684