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Mate choice: female relatives share sexual partners in bats
- Source :
- Current Biology, 15(22), R927-R929. CELL PRESS
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Groups of female greater horseshoe bats share more than just caves. A long-term study has revealed that female relatives share males as well, but the adaptive significance of this family-wide mate fidelity remains obscure.
- Subjects :
- media_common.quotation_subject
Fidelity
1100 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
10127 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
Sexual Behavior, Animal
MYOTIS-BECHSTEINII
Cave
1300 General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
RELATEDNESS
Chiroptera
Evening bat
Animals
EVENING BAT
Cooperative Behavior
media_common
Horseshoe (symbol)
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
biology
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Ecology
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Biological evolution
biology.organism_classification
Biological Evolution
Pedigree
RHINOLOPHUS-FERRUMEQUINUM
Genetics, Population
Mate choice
Evolutionary biology
INFORMATION-TRANSFER
570 Life sciences
590 Animals (Zoology)
Female
Cooperative behavior
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
BEHAVIOR
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09609822
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current biology : CB
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ba3157c9558061b16c30eb88da1fae96