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SUBMITTER: Pasukonis A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647546 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pašukonis Andrius A Loretto Matthias-Claudio MC Rojas Bibiana B
Evolutionary ecology 20190705 4
Parents can influence offspring dispersal through breeding site selection, competition, or by directly moving their offspring during parental care. Many animals move their young, but the potential role of this behavior in dispersal has rarely been investigated. Neotropical poison frogs (Dendrobatidae) are well known for shuttling their tadpoles from land to water, but the associated movements have rarely been quantified and the potential function of tadpole transport in dispersal has not been ad ...[more]