Offspring social network structure predicts fitness in families

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4914-4922

  Royle, Nick J ^a   Pike, Thomas W ^a,e   Heeb, Philipp ^b   Richner, Heinz ^c   Kölliker, Mathias ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Parent offspring conflict; Sexual conflict; Social evolution; Social networks

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84869145254     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1701     Document Type: Article

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