Infant care in callitrichids: Cooperation and competition

Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 149-160

  Yamamoto, Maria Emilia ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b Campus Universitário ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Callitrichids; Cooperative care; Helping; Skew reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; BIRTH RATE; BREEDING METHOD; BREEDING SUCCESS; COOPERATION; COST OF REPRODUCTION; FORAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARMOSET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INHIBITION; PREGNANCY RATE; REARING; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITRICHIDAE; MAMMALIA; MARMOSETS;

EID: 32044468520     PISSN: 18068774     EISSN: 18068774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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