Article
The genetic basis of family conflict resolution in mice.
Nature - 30 Jan 2003
Hager Reinmar, Johnstone Rufus A
Abstract excerpt
Asymmetries in the costs and benefits of parental investment for mothers, fathers and offspring result in family conflict over the production and provisioning of young. In species where females provide most resources before and after birth, the resolution of this conflict may be influenced by genes expressed in mothers and by maternally and paternally inherited genes expressed in offspring. Here we disentangle...
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