Reproductive sharing in animal societies: Reproductive incentives or incomplete control by dominant breeders?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-278

  Reeve, H Kern ^a   Emlen, Stephen T ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cooperation; Cooperative breeding; Eusociality; Optimal skew; Reproductive concessions; Reproductive skew; Sociality

Indexed keywords

MODELLING; REPRODUCTIVE; SOCIAL GROUP;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031838735     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.3.267     Document Type: Article

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