Inbreeding avoidance and reproductive skew in a cooperative mammal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1445, 2000, Pages 801-806

  Cooney, Rosie ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Incest avoidance; Mole rats; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; COETOMYS DAMARENSIS; CRYPTOMYS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034701494     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1074     Document Type: Article

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