Mate choice: Female relatives share sexual partners in bats

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2005, Pages

  Pen, Ido ^a   Kerth, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAT; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; PEDIGREE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

RHINOLOPHUS FERRUMEQUINUM;

EID: 27844552529     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.059     Document Type: Short Survey

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