Paternity loss in contrasting mammalian societies
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- 29 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Biology Letters
- Vol. 2 (4), 513-516
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0531
Abstract
Recent genetic analyses show that, in social mammals, loss of paternity by breeding males varies with strategies of mate guarding rather than with the degree of polygyny.Keywords
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