Low paternity skew and the influence of maternal kin in an egalitarian, patrilocal primate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 47, 2011, Pages 18915-18919

  Strier, Karen B ^a   Chaves, Paulo B ^b   Mendes, Sérgio L ^c   Fagundes, Valéria ^c   Di Fiore, Anthony ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Mating system; Molecular ecology; Platyrrhini; Reproductive strategy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRACHYTELES; BRACHYTELES HYPOXANTHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS; KIN SELECTION; LIFE; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BRAZIL; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PATERNITY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82755187770     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116737108     Document Type: Article

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