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Brood-tending males in a biparental fish suffer high paternity losses but rarely cuckold.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2018
Bose Aneesh P H, Zimmermann Holger, Henshaw Jonathan M, Fritzsche Karoline, Sefc Kristina M
Abstract excerpt
Extra-pair paternity within socially monogamous mating systems is well studied in birds and mammals but rather neglected in other animal taxa. In fishes, social monogamy has evolved several times but few studies have investigated the extent to which pair-bonded male fish lose fertilizations to cuckolders and gain extra-pair fertilizations themselves. We address this gap and present genetic paternity data...
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