Individual recognition, dominance hierarchies and winner and loser effects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1547, 2004, Pages 1537-1540

  Dugatkin, Lee Alan ^a   Earley, Ryan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance hierarchies; Individual recognition; Loser effect; Winner effect

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; RECOGNITION;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 3242707893     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2777     Document Type: Article

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