Inbreeding and inbreeding depression of early life traits in a cooperative mammal

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2788-2804

  Nielsen, Johanna F ^a,b   English, Sinead ^c   Goodall Copestake, Will P ^a,d   Wang, Jinliang ^b   Walling, Craig A ^a   Bateman, Andrew W ^c   Flower, Tom P ^e   Sutcliffe, Robert L ^e   Samson, Jamie ^e   Thavarajah, Nathan K ^e   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^c   Pemberton, Josephine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

emergence mass; growth rate; inbreeding; inbreeding depression; juvenile survival; Suricata suricatta

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; INBREEDING; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INBREEDING; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; REPRODUCTION; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL;

MAMMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 84861579257     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05565.x     Document Type: Article

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