Subordinate males are more likely to help if unrelated to the breeding female in cooperatively breeding white-browed scrubwrens

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-192

  Magrath, Robert D ^a   Whittingham, Linda A ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Helpers; Kin selection; Mating systems; Sericornis frontalis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030804169     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050378     Document Type: Article

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