Not only mate choice matters: fitness consequences of social partner choice in female house mice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 801-808

  Weidt, Andrea ^a   Hofmann, Sarah E ^a   König, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

competition; cooperation; female choice; female preference; fitness consequences; house mouse; Mus domesticus; reproductive success; social partner choice; social selection

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; PARENTAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 39449090163     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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