Kin-preferential cooperation, dominance-dependent reproductive skew, and competition for mates in communally nesting female house mice

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 298-305

  Rusu, Alina S ^a   Krackow, Svee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Female aggression; Kin competition; Social dominance

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BREEDING; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; KINSHIP; RODENT;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS DOMESTICUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 2942596891     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0787-4     Document Type: Article

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