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SUBMITTER: Hobson L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7813238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hobson Liane L Hurst Jane L JL Stockley Paula P
Royal Society open science 20201216 12
Maternal or early life effects may prepare offspring for similar social conditions to those experienced by their mothers. For males, the ability to achieve mating and fertilization success is a key social challenge. Competitive conditions may therefore favour increased body size or ejaculate production in male offspring. We tested this experimentally by comparing reproductive traits of adult male bank voles (<i>Myodes glareolus</i>), whose mothers had experienced contrasting encounter regimes wi ...[more]