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Journal of Natural History
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Functional necrophilia: a profitable anuran reproductive strategy?
Thiago J. Izzo
a a b

, Domingos J. Rodrigues
a

a b c a

, Marcelo Menin

a d

, Albertina P. Lima & William E. Magnusson

Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, CP 478, CEP: 69011-970, Manaus, AM, Brazil
b

Instituto de Biociências,Coordenação de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Correa, s/n. CEP: 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil
c

Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Coordenação de Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Alexandre Ferronato, 1200. CEP: 78557-267, Sinop, MT, Brazil
d

Institutode Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Otávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 59077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil Version of record first published: 06 Nov 2012.

To cite this article: Thiago J. Izzo, Domingos J. Rodrigues, Marcelo Menin, Albertina P. Lima & William E. Magnusson (2012): Functional necrophilia: a profitable anuran reproductivestrategy?, Journal of Natural History, DOI:10.1080/00222933.2012.724720 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.724720

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Journal of Natural History 2012, iFirst article, 1–7

Functional necrophilia: a profitable anuran reproductivestrategy?
Thiago J. Izzoa,b , Domingos J. Rodriguesa,b,c* , Marcelo Menina,d , Albertina P. Limaa and William E. Magnussona
a Coordenação de Pesquisas em Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, CP 478, CEP: 69011-970, Manaus, AM, Brazil; b Instituto de Biociências, Coordenação de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av.Fernando Correa, s/n. CEP: 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil; c Present address: Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Coordenação de Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Alexandre Ferronato, 1200. CEP: 78557-267, Sinop, MT, Brazil; d Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General RodrigoOtávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 59077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil

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(Received 31 March 2012; final version received 23 August 2012) Explosive breeding is a common reproductive strategy, especially in anurans. In some cases of explosive breeding in anurans, intense aggressive interactions occur among males attempting to gain access...