Within-population variation in social strategies characterize the social and mating system of an Australian lizard, Egernia whitii

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 938-949

  While, Geoffrey M ^a   Uller, Tobias ^b   Wapstra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extra pair paternity; Parental care; Reptiles; Social evolution; White's skink

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DISPERSAL; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); LIZARD; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EGERNIA; EGERNIA WHITII; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 67649665811     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02002.x     Document Type: Article

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