The adaptive function of masturbation in a promiscuous African ground squirrel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Waterman, Jane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ESTRUS; GROOMING; MALE; MASTURBATION; NONHUMAN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPERM COMPETITION; SQUIRREL; XERUS INAURIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MASTURBATION; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; NAMIBIA; SCIURIDAE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; XERUS; XERUS INAURIS;

EID: 77958590018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013060     Document Type: Article

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