Reproductive delay in the female Cape ground squirrel (Xerus inauris)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 378-386

  Pettitt, B A ^a,b   Waterman, J M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cooperative breeding; fecal hormones; reproductive delay; reproductive skew; rodents; Xerus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY SIZE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECES; HORMONE; INHIBITION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RODENT; SEXUAL MATURITY;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; XERUS; XERUS INAURIS;

EID: 79955097251     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-168.1     Document Type: Article

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