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A toxic diet: Transfer of contaminants to offspring through a parental care mec...
Maunder, Richard J.; Buckley, Jonathan; Val, Adalberto Luis; Sloman, Katherine A.The transfer of maternal contaminants to offspring during oogenesis and gestation is documented in many animals, and in mammals, contaminants may pass from mother to offspring during lactation. Although other non-mammalian vertebrates provide parental care in the form of nutritive secretions for offspring to feed from, the potential for toxicant transfer during nonmammalian parental care is rarely considered. T...
Biparental mucus feeding: A unique example of parental care in an Amazonian cic...
Buckley, Jonathan; Maunder, Richard J.; Foey, Andrew David; Pearce, Janet; Val, Adalberto Luis; Sloman, Katherine A.Vertebrates display a wide variety of parental care behaviours, including the guarding of offspring pre and post nutritional independence as well as the direct provision of nutrients during the early development period. The Amazonian cichlid Symphysodon spp. (discus fish) is unusual among fish species, in that both parents provide offspring with mucus secretions to feed from after hatching. This extensive provi...
Response to "Comment on 'Biparental mucus feeding: A unique example of parental...
Buckley, Jonathan; Val, Adalberto Luis; Sloman, Katherine A.