Animal behavior: the family that works together stays together.
A new study shows that biparental care in frogs is more likely to evolve when tadpoles are reared under environmentally harsh conditions. Biparental care facilitates both social monogamy and genetic monogamy; frogs that work together to raise their offspring have higher mating fidelity to one another.
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Michael J
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Section of Integrative Biology, 1 University Station C0930, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA. mryan@mail.utexas.edu
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