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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Mate loss"”.
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Fitness and Implications of Reproductive Decisions for Black Brant Nesting on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
… maintaining long-term monogamous relationships, mate loss might be expected to reduce fitness, either through reduced survival or reduced future reproductive investment. In the second chapter, human harvest of male brant was used as an experiment to examine effects of mate loss on fitness of …
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Physiological bases of parental care in the burying beetles, Nicrophorus orbicollis
… a remarkable behavioral compensation after a mate loss. Here, I integrate behavioral and physiological analyses of parental behavior in burying beetles by exploring how hormonal and social factors may interact to mediate brood care.</p><p>In Chapter I, I establish Juvenile Hormone (JH) …