Kinship and aggression: Do house sparrows spare their relatives?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1189-1196

  Tóth, Zoltán ^a   Bókony, Veronika ^a   Lendvai, Ádám Z ^b   Szabó, Krisztián ^c   Pénzes, Zsolt ^c,d   Liker, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b Department of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Management   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dominance; Genetic relatedness; House sparrow; Kin discrimination

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CAPTIVE POPULATION; DOMINANCE; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN SELECTION; KINSHIP; PASSERINE;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 67349245439     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0768-8     Document Type: Article

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