Effects of the distribution of female primates on the number of males

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Carnes, Laurel Mariah ^a   Nunn, Charles L ^b   Lewis, Rebecca J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Peabody Essex Museum   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HAPLORHINI; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROSIMIAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; PRIMATES; REPRODUCTION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 79956142927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019853     Document Type: Article

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