Helpful female subordinate cichlids are more likely to reproduce

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Heg, Dik ^a   Jutzeler, Eva ^a   Mitchell, Jeremy S ^a   Hamilton, Ian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL CASTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; OVIPARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

CICHLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; OVIPARITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 65549087545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005458     Document Type: Article

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