Subordinate male meerkats prospect for extra-group paternity: Alternative reproductive tactics in a cooperative mammal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1618, 2007, Pages 1603-1609

  Young, Andrew J ^a   Spong, Goran ^a,b   Clutton Brock, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Extra pair paternity; Mating system; Multi male groups; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MATING SUCCESS; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CARNIVORA; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MAMMAL; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURICATA SURICATTA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 34447336091     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0316     Document Type: Article

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