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Two of a Kind or a Full House? Reproductive Suppression and Alloparenting in Laboratory Mice

Alloparenting, a behavior in which individuals other than the actual parents act in a parental role, is seen in many mammals, including house mice. In wild house mice, alloparental care is only seen when familiar sibling females simultaneously immigrate to a male’s territory, so in the laboratory, w...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Garner, Joseph P., Gaskill, Brianna N., Pritchett-Corning, Kathleen R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4858245/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27148872
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154966
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