A system for automatic recording of social behavior in a free-living wild house mouse population

Animal Biotelemetry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  König, Barbara ^a   Lindholm, Anna K ^a   Lopes, Patricia C ^a   Dobay, Akos ^a   Steinert, Sally ^a   Buschmann, Frank Jens Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FBI Science GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aniloc; Cooperation; Demography; House mice; Population ecology; Relatedness; RFID technology; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018193370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20503385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-015-0069-0     Document Type: Article

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