Aging in wild female lemurs: Sustained fertility with increased infant mortality

Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2008, Pages 17-28

  Wright, P ^a,b   King, S ^a,c   Baden, A ^a,b   Jernvall, J ^a,d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments at Centre ValBio   (Madagascar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUCKLING; TOOTH;

AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LEMUR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; TOOTH;

EID: 49549099052     PISSN: 00741132     EISSN: 16623800     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000137677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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