Socially Induced Infertility, Incest Avoidance and the Monopoly of Reproduction in Cooperatively Breeding African Mole-Rats, Family Bathyergidae

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue C, 1999, Pages 75-114

  Bennett, Nigel C ^a   Faulkes, Chris G ^b   Jarvis, Jennifer U M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 22644448828     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(08)60216-8     Document Type: Chapter

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