Care for kin: Within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 533-536

  Briga, Michael ^a   Pen, Ido ^a   Wright, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allomaternal care; Cooperative breeding; Kin selection; Phylogenetic signal; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GROUP SIZE; KIN SELECTION; MAMMAL; MATERNAL CARE; MONOGAMY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864427069     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0159     Document Type: Article

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