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Opportunistic mothers: female marmosets (Callithrix kuhlii) reduce their investment in offspring when they have to, and when they can

All female primates incur energetic costs associated with producing and caring for offspring, but females belonging to the New World primate family Callitrichidae, the marmosets and tamarins, appear to face even further demands. In fact, the energetic demands of rearing callitrichid infants are thou...

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Main Authors: Fite, Jeffrey E., Patera, Kimberly J., French, Jeffrey A., Rukstalis, Michael, Hopkins, Elizabeth C., Ross, Corinna N.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987622/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15935439
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.04.003
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