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    Tactical reproductive parasitism via larval cannibalism in Peruvian poison frogs

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    Brown, Jason L.; Morales, Victor; Summers, Kyle
    Abstract
    We report an unusual example of reproductive parasitism in amphibians. Dendrobates variabi- lis, an Amazonian poison frog, oviposits at the surface of the water in small pools in plants and deposits tadpoles within the pools. Tadpoles are highly cannibalistic and consume young tadpoles if they are accessible. Deposition of embryos and tadpoles in the same pool is common. Genetic analyses indicate that tadpoles are fre- quently unrelated to embryos in the same pool. A pool choice experiment in the field demon- strated that males carrying tadpoles prefer to place them in pools with embryos, facilitating reproductive parasitism via cannibalism. Originally published Biology Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, Apr 2009
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3214
    Subject
     Reproductive parasitism; Egg cannibalism; Dendrobates; Ranitomeya; Deposition strategies; Anurans 
    Date
    2009-04-23
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    Brown, Jason L., & Morales, Victor, & Summers, Kyle. (April 2009). Tactical reproductive parasitism via larval cannibalism in Peruvian poison frogs. Biology Letters, 5(2), 148- 151. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3214

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    Brown, Jason L., and Morales, Victor, and Summers, Kyle. "Tactical reproductive parasitism via larval cannibalism in Peruvian poison frogs". Biology Letters. 5:2. (148-151), April 2009. September 21, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3214.
    Chicago:
    Brown, Jason L. and Morales, Victor and Summers, Kyle, "Tactical reproductive parasitism via larval cannibalism in Peruvian poison frogs," Biology Letters 5, no. 2 (April 2009), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3214 (accessed September 21, 2023).
    AMA:
    Brown, Jason L., Morales, Victor, Summers, Kyle. Tactical reproductive parasitism via larval cannibalism in Peruvian poison frogs. Biology Letters. April 2009; 5(2): 148-151. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3214. Accessed September 21, 2023.
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