Parenting and potency: Alternative routes to reproductive success in male Mongolian gerbils

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 635-642

  Clark, Mertice M ^a   Desousa, Dorothy ^b   Vonk, Jennifer ^b   Galef Jr , Bennett G ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONGOLIAN GERBIL; PARENTAL EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR; TRADE-OFF;

GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 0031238633     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0468     Document Type: Article

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