Female reproduction bears no survival cost in captivity for gray mouse lemurs.

ABSTRACT: The survival cost of reproduction has been revealed in many free-ranging vertebrates. However, recent studies on captive populations failed to detect this cost. Theoretically, this lack of survival/reproduction trade-off is expected when resources are not limiting, but these studies may have failed to detect the cost, as they may not have fully accounted for potential confounding effects, in particular interindividual heterogeneity. Here, we investigated the effects of current and past reproductive effort on later survival in captive females of a small primate, the gray mouse lemur. Survival analyses showed no cost of reproduction in females; and the pattern was even in the opposite direction: the higher the reproductive effort, the higher the chances of survival until the next reproductiv

SUBMITTER: Landes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6580269 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature