Absence of kin structure in a population of the group-living rodent Octodon degus

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 248-254

  Quirici, Verónica ^a,c   Faugeron, Sylvain ^a   Hayes, Loren D ^b   Ebensperger, Luis A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

offspring associations; relatedness; social groups; spatial genetic autocorrelation analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; KIN SELECTION; NATAL DISPERSAL; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT;

OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79952734796     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq196     Document Type: Article

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