Do primary males physiologically suppress subordinate males? An experiment in a cooperatively breeding passerine

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 576-587

  Brouwer, Lyanne ^a,d   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a   Vedder, Oscar ^a   Eikenaar, Cas ^a   Richardson, David S ^b,c   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURE SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 65649094141     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01643.x     Document Type: Article

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