Adaptive suppression of subordinate reproduction in cooperative mammals

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 664-673

  Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a,b   Hodge, Sarah J ^a,c   Flower, Tom P ^b   Spong, Goran F ^a,d   Young, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Mammals; Reproduction; Reproductive skew; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; DOMINANCE; FITNESS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HERPESTIDAE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 78349244390     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656492     Document Type: Article

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