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Cascading costs of reproduction in female house wrens induced to lay larger clutches

In many species, females produce fewer offspring than they are capable of rearing, possibly because increases in current reproductive effort come at the expense of a female’s own survival and future reproduction. To test this, we induced female house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) to lay more eggs than t...

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Published in:J Evol Biol
Main Authors: HODGES, C. J., BOWERS, E. K., THOMPSON, C. F., SAKALUK, S. K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4490977/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26012556
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12662
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