Polyandry enhances offspring survival in an infanticidal species

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-26

  Klemme, Ines ^a   Ylönen, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bank vole; Infanticide; Myodes=clethrionomys glareolus; Non genetic benefit; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFANTICIDE; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 77449126020     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0500     Document Type: Article

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