Paternal care plasticity: males care more for early- than late-developing embryos in an arboreal breeding treefrog

Abstract Background Parental care benefits offspring but comes with costs. To optimize the trade-off of costs and benefits, parents should adjust care based on intrinsic and/or extrinsic conditions. The harm to offspring hypothesis suggests that parents should invest more in younger offspring than o...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Zoology
Main Authors:	Yuan-Cheng Cheng, Cai-Han Xie, Yu-Chen Chen, Nien-Tse Fuh, Ming-Feng Chuang, Yeong-Choy Kam
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2024-06-01
Subjects:	Parental care Paternal care Harm to offspring hypothesis Offspring vulnerability hypothesis Plasticity Phytotelm-breeding
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-024-00537-z