Affiliation in four echimyid rodent species based on intrasexual dyadic encounters: Evolutionary implications

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 389-397

  Freitas, Jorge N S ^a   El Hani, Charbel N ^a   Da Rocha, Pedro L B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOREGION; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VEGETATION TYPE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ECHIMYIDAE; RODENTIA; THRICHOMYS; THRICHOMYS APEREOIDES; TRINOMYS; TRINOMYS ALBISPINUS; TRINOMYS IHERINGI; TRINOMYS YONENAGAE;

EID: 40849139439     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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