Reproductive skew in female common marmosets: What can proximate mechanisms tell us about ultimate causes?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1656, 2009, Pages 389-399

  Saltzman, Wendy ^a,b   Digby, Leslie J ^c   Abbott, David H ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Dominance; Infanticide; Reproductive suppression; Sexual inhibition; Subordination

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; BIRTH; BREEDING; CONCEPTION; INFANTICIDE; LACTATION; MARMOSET; MATING; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

CALLITHRIX JACCHUS;

EID: 58149118389     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1374     Document Type: Review

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