Sexually selected behaviour: Red squirrel males search for reproductive success

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 296-304

  Lane, Jeffrey E ^a,c   Boutin, Stan ^a   Gunn, Melissa R ^b   Coltman, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Central Science Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mating system; Scramble competition; Selection gradient; Sexual selection; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; MALE BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; SEASON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TERRITORIALITY;

MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 59449103439     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01502.x     Document Type: Article

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