SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2018
Multiple paternity and number of offspring in mammals.
Synthesis in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Multiple paternity and number of offspring in mammals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Pooled it
- Factors Affecting Multiple Paternity: Insights From the Eastern Quoll (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Environmental quality shapes the fitness payoffs of multiple paternity.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Organizational effects of testosterone on the number of mating partners and reproductive success in females of a social rodent.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Environmental and population correlates of variation in short torpor use by wild hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius).Oecologia · 2025Article
- Agent-based modelling reveals feedback loops and non-linearity between mating system evolution and disease dynamics.PloS one · 2025Article
- The secret social life of solitary mammals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- How much multiple paternity should we expect? A study of birds and contrast with mammals.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Paternity share predicts sons' fetal testosterone.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The evolution of pueriparity maintains multiple paternity in a polymorphic viviparous salamander.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Editorial: What's Love Got to Do With It: The Evolution of Monogamy.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Explaining variation in the kinship composition of mammal groups.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Many cooperative social attributes are being linked to characteristics of mating systems, particularly to the rate of multiple paternity that typifies a population. Under the logic that greater offspring production by females should engender greater competition among males to mate with females, it is predicted that multiple paternity should increase with litter sizes. We tested the predicted positive association of multiple paternity and litter size with a meta-analysis of 59 species of mammals. The probability of multiple paternity and mean litter size were positively correlated, but not significantly (
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