Sociality reduces individual direct fitness in a communally breeding rodent, the colonial tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 449-457

  Lacey, Eileen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal breeding; Direct fitness; Philopatry; Sociality; Tuco tucos

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; NATAL DISPERSAL; PHILOPATRY; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS; CTENOMYS SOCIABILIS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4544277272     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0805-6     Document Type: Article

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