Male infanticide and primate monogamy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages

  Dixson, Alan F ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

AMENORRHEA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CALLITRICHINAE; CONCEPTION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTION; FOLLICULAR PHASE; INFANTICIDE; LACTATION; LETTER; MALE INFANTICIDE; MATING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; OVULATION; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SKIN SWELLING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SUCKLING ANIMAL; TWINS;

EID: 84890831300     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318645110     Document Type: Letter

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