Reproductive seasonality is a poor predictor of receptive synchrony and male reproductive skew among nonhuman primates

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-134

  Gogarten, Jan F ^a,b   Koenig, Andreas ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpha paternity; Multimale groups; Nonhuman primates; Priority of access; Seasonality; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONALITY; SYNCHRONY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84871871842     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1432-2     Document Type: Article

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