Do female rodents use promiscuity to prevent male infanticide?

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dc.contributor.authorEbensperger, LA
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T01:32:41Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T01:32:41Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.description.abstractIt has been hypothesized that females could use promiscuity to prevent male infanticide: a female will mate with several males as a way to confuse paternity of her offspring, so the males will tolerate these infants that might be their own. If so, and all other things being equal, a female should prefer an infanticidal over a noninfanticidal male as a mating partner. To test this prediction, I examined the social preferences of female meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) and house mice (Mus musculus) toward infanticidal and noninfanticidal conspecific males. In each trial, a female was allowed to visit two compartments containing either an infanticidal or a noninfanticidal male. Females of both species visited both kinds of males with the same frequency. Similarly, females of both species spent a similar amount of time inspecting the compartments of the infanticidal and the noninfanticidal male. The frequencies of other female behaviors such as self-grooming, scent marking, or aggression, were also similar. These results provide no support for the hypothesis that female promiscuity is a female strategy to prevent male infanticide in house mice or meadow voles.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.eissn1828-7131
dc.identifier.issn0394-9370
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/97305
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000076747400003
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final141
dc.pagina.inicio129
dc.revistaEthology ecology & evolution
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectpromiscuity
dc.subjectinfanticide
dc.subjectMicrotus
dc.subjectMus
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleDo female rodents use promiscuity to prevent male infanticide?
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen10
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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