Radical loss of an extreme extra-pair mating system
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Extra-Pair Mating and Evolution of Cooperative Neighbourhoods
A striking but unexplained pattern in biology is the promiscuous mating behaviour in socially monogamous species. Although females commonly solicit extra-pair copulations, the adaptive reason has remained elusive. We use evolutionary modelling of breeding ecology to show that females benefit because extra-pair paternity incentivizes males to shift focus from a single brood towards the entire ne...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Ecology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1472-6785
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-9-15