Reproductive skew and indiscriminate infanticide

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 243-249

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNAL BREEDING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INFANTICIDE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

EID: 0032967932     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0952     Document Type: Article

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