Activity predicts male reproductive success in a polygynous lizard

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Keogh, J Scott ^a   Noble, Daniel W A ^b   Wilson, Eleanor E ^a   Whiting, Martin J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CLUTCH SIZE; COURTSHIP; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FITNESS; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; POLYGYNY; PREDICTION; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC FITNESS; LIZARDS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

SQUAMATA;

EID: 84863815955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038856     Document Type: Article

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