Sperm depletion may not limit male reproduction in a capital breeder
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Individual quality and age but not environmental or social conditions modulate costs of reproduction in a capital breeder
Costs associated with reproduction are widely known to play a role in the evolution of reproductive tactics with consequences to population and eco-evolutionary dynamics. Evaluating these costs as they pertain to species in the wild remains an important goal of evolutionary ecology. Individual heterogeneity, including differences in individual quality (i.e., among-individual differences in trai...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0024-4066
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12603