Bateman's principle in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: the effects of non-breeding alloparents on variability in female and male reproductive success

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 903-914

  Hauber, Mark E ^a,b   Lacey, Eileen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 30744469340     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.5.903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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