Joint care can outweigh costs of nonkin competition in communal breeders

Competition between offspring can greatly influence offspring fitness and parental investment decisions, especially in communal breeders where unrelated competitors have less incentive to concede resources. Given the potential for escalated conflict, it remains unclear what mechanisms facilitate the...

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Published in:Behav Ecol
Main Authors: Bebbington, Kat, Fairfield, Eleanor A, Spurgin, Lewis G, Kingma, Sjouke A, Dugdale, Hannah, Komdeur, Jan, Richardson, David S
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5873242/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29622934
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx137
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