Female attractiveness affects paternal investment: experimental evidence for male differential allocation in blue tits
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The differential allocation hypothesis (DAH) predicts that individuals should adjust their parental investment to their current mate’s quality. Although in principle the DAH holds for both sexes, male adjustment of parental investm...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
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Online Access: | http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/9/1/14 |