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The Bruce effect revisited: is pregnancy termination in female rodents an adaptation to ensure breeding success after male turnover in low densities?

Pregnancy termination after encountering a strange male, the Bruce effect, is regarded as a counterstrategy of female mammals towards anticipated infanticide. While confirmed in caged rodent pairs, no verification for the Bruce effect existed from experimental field populations of small rodents. We...

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Udgivet i:Oecologia
Main Authors: Eccard, Jana A., Dammhahn, Melanie, Ylönen, Hannu
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596041/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28791488
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-3904-6
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