Cooperative nest defence in red-winged blackbirds: Reciprocal altruism, kinship or by-product mutualism?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1535, 2004, Pages 177-182

  Olendorf, Robert ^a,b   Getty, Thomas ^a   Scribner, Kim ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agelaius phoeniceus; Altruism; Cooperation; Mutualism; Red winged blackbirds; Tit for tat

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; MUTUALISM; NEST GUARDING; PASSERINE; RECIPROCITY;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; ALTRUISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KIN SELECTION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIMULATION; SYMBIOSIS;

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 1642553348     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2586     Document Type: Article

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