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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Pigs, as one of the most common livestock species worldwide, are expected to have a fast growth rate and lower subcutaneous fatness but higher intramuscular fat (“marbling meat”).
Shi Tang +11 more
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Habitat Quality Determines Dispersal Decisions and Fitness in a Beetle – Fungus Mutualism
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Delayed dispersal of sexually mature offspring is a fundamental component of cooperative breeding. In ambrosia beetles, female offspring temporarily remain in their natal nest and refrain from reproduction, instead investing in alloparental care ...
Jon Andreja Nuotclà +2 more
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Evolution Letters, 2021 Offspring from elderly parents often have lower survival due to parental senescence. In cooperatively breeding species, where offspring care is shared between breeders and helpers, the alloparental care provided by helpers is predicted to mitigate the ...
Martijn Hammers +7 more
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Commodity-specific punishment for experimentally induced defection in cooperatively breeding fish [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Coercion is an important but underrated component in the evolution of cooperative behaviour. According to the pay-to-stay hypothesis of cooperative breeding, subordinates trade alloparental care for the concession to stay in the group. Punishment of idle
Jan Naef, Michael Taborsky
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The sentinel behaviour of Arabian babbler floaters [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The sentinel behaviour of 38 Arabian babbler adult floaters, who lived alone within a territory belonging to a foreign group, was studied and compared with their own sentinel behaviour in the past, when they were group members.
Roni Ostreiher, Aviad Heifetz
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Experimental evidence for density dependent reproduction in a cooperatively breeding passerine [PDF]
, 2009 Temporal variation in survival, fecundity, and dispersal rates is associated with density-dependent and density-independent processes. Stable natural populations are expected to be regulated by density-dependent factors.
Tinbergen, Joost M. +18 more
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Production of homeobox A10 gene transgenic pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2019 Homeobox A10 (Hoxa10) gene is one of the most important candidate genes associated with the reproductive performance of humans and mice. Overexpression of Hoxa10 in mouse endometrium can increase litter size.
Qian XIAO +9 more
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Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2016 The homeobox A11 (HOXA11) gene, a well-known transcriptional regulator, plays a critical role in normal development of the uterus. In this study, the porcine HOXA11 gene, including its promoter region, was cloned and sequenced (GenBank Accession No ...
R. Lin, H. Jia, S. Chen, S. Zhao
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The ecology of cooperative breeding behaviour
Ecology Letters, 2017 AbstractEcology is a fundamental driving force for the evolutionary transition from solitary living to breeding cooperatively in groups. However, the fact that both benign and harsh, as well as stable and fluctuating, environments can favour the evolution of cooperative breeding behaviour constitutes a paradox of environmental quality and sociality ...
Sheng-Feng, Shen +3 more
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