Coalitions of relatives and reproductive skew in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1440, 2000, Pages 243-249

  Heinsohn, Robert ^a   Dunn, Peter ^b   Legge, Sarah ^a   Double, Michael ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalitions; Cooperative breeding; DNA fingerprinting; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SKEWNESS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; COOPERATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; CORCORAX MELANORHAMPHOS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034615064     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0993     Document Type: Article

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