Infanticide as sexual conflict: coevolution of male strategies and female counterstrategies.

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• Publication year

  2015

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  Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

• Publication date

  2015-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1101/cshperspect.a017640PMID 25986557PMCID PMC4448612
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