Lizards cooperatively tunnel to construct a long-term home for family members

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  McAlpin, Steve ^a   Duckett, Paul ^a   Stow, Adam ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; BURROWING SPECIES; DNA DETERMINATION; LIOPHOLIS KINTOREI; LIZARD; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PROGENY; SIBLING; ANIMAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EGERNIA KINTOREI; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIZARDS; MALE;

EID: 79955894350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019041     Document Type: Article

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