Parentage of overlapping offspring of an arboreal-breeding frog with no nest defense: implications for nest site selection and reproductive strategy.

Overlapping offspring occurs when eggs are laid in a nest containing offspring from earlier reproduction. Earlier studies showed that the parentage is not always obvious due to difficulties in field observation and/or alternative breeding tactics. To unveil the parentage between overlapping offsprin...

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Main Authors: Wan-Ping Tung, Yi-Huey Chen, Wei-Chun Cheng, Ming-Feng Chuang, Wan-Tso Hsu, Yeong-Choy Kam, Richard M Lehtinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123221