Pre-social benefits of extended parental care

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6983, 2004, Pages 650-652

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Brace, Selina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH INSURANCE; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INTERSPECIFIC PARASITES; NON-SOCIAL WASPS; OFFSPRING DEPENDENCY;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PARENTAL CARE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; EVOLUTION; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 1942452474     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02427     Document Type: Article

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