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Helpers compensate for age‐related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird

Offspring from elderly parents often have lower survival due to parental senescence. In cooperatively breeding species, where offspring care is shared between breeders and helpers, the alloparental care provided by helpers is predicted to mitigate the impact of parental senescence on offspring provi...

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Autores principales: Hammers, Martijn, Kingma, Sjouke A., van Boheemen, Lotte A., Sparks, Alexandra M., Burke, Terry, Dugdale, Hannah L., Richardson, David S., Komdeur, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8045936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.213