Testing the conditional cooperation model: What can we learn from parents taking turns when feeding offspring?

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue APR, 2019, Pages

  Santema, Peter ^a   Schlicht, Emmi ^a   Kempenaers, Bart ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternation; Conditional cooperation; Parental care; Provisioning; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065136549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00094     Document Type: Note

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