Female mate-choice drives the evolution of male-biased dispersal in a social mammal

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7155, 2007, Pages 798-801

  Honer O P ^a   Wachter, B ^a   East, M L ^a   Streich, W J ^a   Wilhelm, K ^a   Burke, T ^b   Hofer, H ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FELID; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; INBREEDING; MATE CHOICE; NATAL DISPERSAL; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS;

CROCUTA CROCUTA; HYAENA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547955161     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06040     Document Type: Article

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