The Perfect Family: Decision Making in Biparental Care

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Akçay, Erol ^a,b   Roughgarden, Joan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77949329879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007345     Document Type: Article

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