Paternity of subordinates raises cooperative effort in cichlids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Bruintjes, Rick ^a,b   Bonfils, Danielle ^a   Heg, Dik ^a   Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAGE ANALYSIS; PATERNITY; PREDATOR; SPECIES DOMINANCE; ANIMAL; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

CICHLIDAE; NEOLAMPROLOGUS PULCHER;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 80053953178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025673     Document Type: Article

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