Paternity and dominance loss in male breeders: The cost of helpers in a cooperatively breeding mammal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lardy, Sophie ^a   Cohas, Aurélie ^a   Desouhant, Emmanuel ^a   Tafani, Marion ^a   Allainé, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF REPRODUCTION; FITNESS; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM SOCIAL GROUP; PATERNITY; SCIURIDAE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MARMOTA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TIME;

MAMMALIA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; MALE; MARMOTA; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855857740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029508     Document Type: Article

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