Adjustment of costly extra-group paternity according to inbreeding risk in a cooperative mammal

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1486-1494

  Nichols, Hazel J ^a   Cant, Michael A ^b   Sanderson, Jennifer L ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

extra group paternity; extrapair paternity; intergroup interaction; mammal; mating system; warfare

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MAMMAL; MATE CHOICE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

ANIMALIA; HERPESTIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUNGOS MUNGO;

EID: 84942626319     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv095     Document Type: Article

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