Costly young and reproductive skew in animal societies

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 178-184

  Cant, Michael A ^a,b   Johnstone, Rufus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Cost of reproduction; Dominance; Reproductive skew; Subordinate

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0032938024     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.2.178     Document Type: Article

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