Selected polyandry: Female choice and inter-sexual conflict in a small nocturnal solitary primate (Microcebus murinus)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-100

  Eberle, Manfred ^a,b   Kappeler, Peter M ^a  

^a Abteilung Soziobiologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Female choice; Microcebus; Mixed paternity; Promiscuity; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; POLYANDRY; PRIMATE; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; MICROCEBUS; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 8744292112     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0823-4     Document Type: Article

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