Life history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate model

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1204, Issue , 2010, Pages 127-138

  Altmann, Jeanne ^a,b,c   Gesquiere, Laurence ^a   Galbany, Jordi ^d,e   Onyango, Patrick O ^a   Alberts, Susan C ^b,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

baboons; body condition; reproductive aging; senescence; steroid hormones; toothwear

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956236978     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05531.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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