Variation in social organization influences the opportunity for sexual selection in a social lizard

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 844-852

  While, Geoffrey M ^a   Uller, Tobias ^b   Wapstra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egernia whitii; extra pair paternity; reptile; social monogamy; within pair paternity

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EGERNIA; EGERNIA WHITII; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79551664833     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04976.x     Document Type: Article

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