The cost of dominance: Suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1728, 2012, Pages 619-624

  Bell, M B V ^a,d   Nichols, H J ^a   Gilchrist, J S ^b   Cant, M A ^c   Hodge, S J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cooperation; Cooperative breeding; Eusociality; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DOMINANCE; EUSOCIALITY; FEMALE; FITNESS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84055222351     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1093     Document Type: Article

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