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Mother guarding: how offspring may influence the extra-pair behaviour of their parents

In this paper we propose a novel form of social control of mate choice. Through mother guarding, offspring can help in protecting the paternity of their father by preventing their mother from engaging in extra-pair matings. We present a model that predicts the circumstances under which mothers shoul...

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Main Authors: Welbergen, Justin A, Quader, Suhel
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636085/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16928639
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3591
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