Does it pay to be a dominant male in a promiscuous species?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 248-257

  Klemme, Ines ^a,b   Eccard, Jana A ^b,d   Gerlach, Gabriele ^c,e   Horne, Taina J ^b   Ylönen, Hannu ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SOCIAL STATUS;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 33746075570     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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