Brood sex ratio does not affect helper effort in a cooperative bird, despite extreme sex-biased dispersal

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 243-250

  McDonald, Paul G ^a,b   Ewen, John G ^c   Wright, Jonathan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

bell miner; direct benefit; group augmentation; indirect benefit; kin selection; Manorina melanophrys; sex allocation

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; HABITAT QUALITY; KIN SELECTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

AVES; MANORINA MELANOPHRYS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72149101233     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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