Female competition and its evolutionary consequences in mammals

Biological Reviews

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 341-366

  Stockley, Paula ^a   Bro Jørgensen, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Female competition; Infanticide; Reproductive suppression; Sex dependent selection; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection; Sexual signalling; Sperm limitation; Spite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79954567935     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00149.x     Document Type: Review

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