Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7122, 2006, Pages 1065-1068

  Clutton Brock, T H ^a,b   Hodge, S J ^a   Spong, G ^a,c   Russell, A F ^a,d   Jordan, N R ^a   Bennett, N C ^b   Sharpe, L L ^e   Manser, M B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURICATA SURICATTA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 33845911204     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05386     Document Type: Article

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