Sexual selection, multiple mating and paternity in grey mouse lemurs, Microcebus murinus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-268

  Radespiel, Ute ^a   Dal Secco, Valentina ^a   Drögemüller, Cord ^a   Braune, Pia ^a   Labes, Elisabeth ^a   Zimmermann, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0036060182     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1924     Document Type: Article

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