Maternal and offspring effects influence provisioning to mixed litters of own and alien young in mice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1039-1045

  Hager, Reinmar ^a,b   Johnstone, Rufus A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communal nursing; kin recognition; maternal provisioning; mice; Mus musculus; parent of origin dependent effects; sibling competition

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN RECOGNITION; LITTER; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RODENT; SIBLING;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 35148824401     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.021     Document Type: Article

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