Female Zebra Finches Smell Their Eggs.

Parental investment in unrelated offspring seems maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective, due to the costs of energy and resources that cannot be invested in related offspring at the same time. Therefore selection should favour mechanisms to discriminate between own and foreign offspring. In bi...

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Main Authors: Sarah Golüke, Sebastian Dörrenberg, E Tobias Krause, Barbara A Caspers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4871452?pdf=render