Evolutionary routes to non-kin cooperative breeding in birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1772, 2013, Pages

  Riehl, Christina ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Direct benefits; Mating systems; Parasitism; Unrelated

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FITNESS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; PARASITISM; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIRD; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DIRECT BENEFITS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MATING SYSTEMS; NESTING; PARASITISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNRELATED;

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DIRECT BENEFITS; MATING SYSTEMS; PARASITISM; UNRELATED;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; GENETICS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84902689898     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2245     Document Type: Review

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