Convenience polyandry or convenience polygyny? costly sex under female control in a promiscuous primate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1732, 2012, Pages 1371-1379

  Huchard, Elise ^a,b   Canale, Cindy I ^c   le Gros, Chloé ^c   Perret, Martine ^c   Henry, Pierre Yves ^c   Kappeler, Peter M ^a,b  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Coercion; Microcebus; Polyandry; Primates; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POLYANDRY; POLYGYNY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

LEMUR; MAMMALIA; MICROCEBUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84857564702     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1326     Document Type: Article

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