Reproductive skew, costs, and benefits of cooperative breeding in female wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 408-418

  Gerlach, Gabriele ^a,b   Bartmann, Susann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodemus sylvaticus; Cooperative breeding; Reproductive skew; Wood mice

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RODENT; SKEWNESS;

APODEMUS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036558748     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/13.3.408     Document Type: Article

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