The dilemma of female mate selection in the brown bear, a species with sexually selected infanticide

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1584, 2006, Pages 283-291

  Bellemain, Eva ^a,b   Zedrosser, Andreas ^b,c   Manel, Stéphanie ^a   Waits, Lisette P ^d   Taberlet, Pierre ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e Norwegian Institute for Nature Management   (Norway)

Author keywords

Female choice; Infanticide; Mating system; Microsatellites; Parentage analysis; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BODY SIZE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GAMETE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INFANTICIDE; MATE CHOICE; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

ARTICLE; BEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFANTICIDE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; URSUS ARCTOS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY;

URSUS ARCTOS;

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TELEMETRY; URSIDAE;

EID: 33645757065     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3331     Document Type: Article

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