High rates of extra-pair young in the pair-living fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus medius

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 8-17

  Fietz, J ^b   Zischler, H ^b   Schwiegk, C ^b   Tomiuk, J ^c   Dausmann, K H ^a   Ganzhorn, J U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extra pair young; Lemur; Microsatellite; Monogamy; Reproductive strategies

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

MADAGASCAR;

CHEIROGALEIDAE; CHEIROGALEUS MEDIUS; LEMUR; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0034503388     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650000269     Document Type: Article

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