Similarity of personalities speeds up reproduction in pairs of a monogamous rodent

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 7-15

  Rangassamy, Marylin ^a   Dalmas, Morgan ^a   Féron, Christophe ^a   Gouat, Patrick ^a   Rödel, Heiko G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Assortative pairing; Mound building mouse; Mus spicilegus; Onset of reproduction; Personality matching

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; STANDARDIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS SPICILEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84924082181     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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