Till Death (Or an Intruder) Do Us Part: Intrasexual-Competition in a Monogamous Primate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fernandez Duque, Eduardo ^a,b   Huck, Maren ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AOTUS; AOTUS AZARAI; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; POLYGAMY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; PAIR BOND; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84872792440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053724     Document Type: Article

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