The willing cuckold: optimal paternity allocation, infanticide and male reproductive strategies in mammals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1397-1407

  Boyko, Ryan H ^a   Marshall, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

infanticide; intersexual conflict; intrasexual conflict; mating effort; mating system; optimal skew; paternity confusion

Indexed keywords

INFANTICIDE; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

BIDENS PILOSA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 67349169166     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.036     Document Type: Article

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