Costs of mating competition limit male lifetime breeding success in polygynous mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1786, 2014, Pages

  Lukas, Dieter ^a   Clutton Brock, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lifetime breeding success; Mammals; Mating system; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; LIFE CYCLE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; MULTIPLE MATING; POLYGYNY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

EID: 84900552077     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0418     Document Type: Article

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