Genetic relatedness in groups is sex-specific and declines with age of helpers in a cooperatively breeding cichlid

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 968-975

  Dierkes, Petra ^a,b   Heg, Dik ^b   Taborsky, Michael ^a,b   Skubic, Eva ^a,b   Achmann, Roland ^c,d  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d genteQ GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age distribution; Cichlids; Cooperative breeding; Genetic relatedness; Matrilineal inheritance; Size distribution; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; CICHLID; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; KIN SELECTION; RELATEDNESS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

EID: 24344481279     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00801.x     Document Type: Article

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