Detecting instability in animal social networks: Genetic fragmentation is associated with social instability in rhesus macaques

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Beisner, Brianne A ^a,b   Jackson, Megan E ^a   Cameron, Ashley N ^a   McCowan, Brenda ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GROOMING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM SOCIAL GROUP; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; ANIMAL; FAMILY; GENETICS; HEREDITY; MACACA MULATTA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FAMILY; GENETIC PHENOMENA; GROOMING; MACACA MULATTA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79551521816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016365     Document Type: Article

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