Sex ratios when helpers stay at the nest

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2012-2022

  Wild, Geoff ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conflict; Direct fitness; Helpers at the nest; Kin selection; Local resource competition; Overlapping generations; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BREEDING POPULATION; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; KIN SELECTION; NEST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO;

EID: 33751336594     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-028.1     Document Type: Article

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