Cannibalistic tadpoles that pose the greatest threat to kin are most likely to discriminate kin

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1414, 1999, Pages 57-61

  Pfennig, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Cannibalistic polyphenism; Conditionality; Context dependent behaviour; Kin recognition; Kin selection

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; CANNIBALISM; KIN RECOGNITION;

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; FITNESS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RELATIVE; SPECIES; TADPOLE;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; PELOBATIDAE; SPEA BOMBIFRONS; SPEA MULTIPLICATA;

EID: 0033531136     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0604     Document Type: Article

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