title: Paternity loss in contrasting mammalian societies.
abstract: Recent genetic analyses show that, in social mammals, loss of paternity by breeding males varies with strategies of mate guarding rather than with the degree of polygyny.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. thcb@hermes.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Clutton-Brock
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Isvaran
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals / Q000502:physiology*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010152:Pair Bond; D010334:Paternity; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*