Male 'macho' mammals exploiting females versus male 'Don Juan' birds exploited by females: The opposite-sex exploitation (OSEX) theory

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 204-206

  Caizergues, Alain ^a   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Birds; Mammals; Mating systems; Sex biased dispersal; Sexual coercion; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032780613     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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