Postreproductive killer whale grandmothers improve the survival of their grandoffspring

Understanding why females of some mammalian species cease ovulation prior to the end of life is a long-standing interdisciplinary and evolutionary challenge. In humans and some species of toothed whales, females can live for decades after stopping reproduction. This unusual life history trait is tho...

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Publié dans:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Auteurs principaux: Nattrass, Stuart, Croft, Darren P., Ellis, Samuel, Cant, Michael A., Weiss, Michael N., Wright, Brianna M., Stredulinsky, Eva, Doniol-Valcroze, Thomas, Ford, John K. B., Balcomb, Kenneth C., Franks, Daniel W.
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: National Academy of Sciences 2019
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Biological Sciences
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936675/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31818941
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903844116
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