Reproductive competition and the evolution of extreme birth synchrony in a cooperative mammal

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-56

  Hodge, S J ^a   Bell, M B V ^b   Cant, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communal breeding; Infanticide; Offspring competition; Reproductive skew; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONIAL BREEDING; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INFANTICIDE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELECTION; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUNGOS MUNGO;

EID: 78650183844     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0555     Document Type: Article

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