Reproductive compensation in broad-nosed pipefish females
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Reproductive compensation in broad-nosed pipefish females.
The differential allocation hypothesis assumes that animals should weigh costs and benefits of investing into reproduction with a current mate against the expected quality of future mates, and predicts that they should invest more into reproduction when pairing with a high-quality mate. In the broad-nosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle), males care for the embryos in a brood pouch and females comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2290