A model for the evolution of reproductive skew without reproductive suppression

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 163-169

  Cant, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; DOMINANCE; MODELLING; REPRODUCTIVE SKEW;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031960456     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0589     Document Type: Article

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