Female aggression predicts mode of paternity acquisition in a social lizard

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1664, 2009, Pages 2021-2029

  While, Geoffrey M ^a   Sinn, David L ^a   Wapstra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egernia whitii; Extra pair paternity; Individual differences in behaviour; Mating systems

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BODY SIZE; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIZARD; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WILD POPULATION;

AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; LIZARD; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EGERNIA; EGERNIA WHITII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 66149186994     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1926     Document Type: Article

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