Intra-sexual selection in cooperative mammals and birds: Why are females not bigger and better armed

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1631, 2013, Pages

  Young, Andrew J ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Cooperative breeding; Mate choice; Reproductive skew; Sex differences; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SHAPE; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIMORPHISM; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOLE RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SKEW; SEX DIFFERENCES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

COOPERATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE SKEW; SEX DIFFERENCES; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; MOLE RATS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84886482371     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0075     Document Type: Article

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