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Energetic Benefits of Sociality Offset the Costs of Parasitism in a Cooperative Mammal

dc.contributor.authorLutermann, Heike
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Nigel C.
dc.contributor.authorSpeakman, John R.
dc.contributor.authorScantlebury, Michael
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Biological Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Securityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of Aberdeen.Energetics Research Groupen
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-16T00:04:06Z
dc.date.available2018-03-16T00:04:06Z
dc.date.issued2013-02-25
dc.descriptionWe thank the owners for access to their property for animal capture and KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service for issuing the capture permit. This research was funded by the NRF-SAR Chair for Mammalian Behavioural Ecology and Physiology to NCB and University of Pretoria PDRF's to MS and HL. Many assistants were involved with fieldwork but we would especially like to thank Marietjie Oosthuizen and Craig Jackson for their help. This research was funded by the Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation-South African Research Chairs Initiative Chair for Mammalian Behavioural Ecology and Physiology to N.C.B. and University of Pretoria Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to M.S. and H.L. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent8
dc.format.extent280490
dc.identifier100260145
dc.identifier8f360cb0-9f33-4f5f-889a-133589cfa6fd
dc.identifier84874383706
dc.identifier23451285
dc.identifier.citationLutermann, H, Bennett, N C, Speakman, J R & Scantlebury, M 2013, 'Energetic Benefits of Sociality Offset the Costs of Parasitism in a Cooperative Mammal', PloS ONE, vol. 8, no. 2, e57969, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057969en
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0057969
dc.identifier.iss2en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2164/10180
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84874383706&partnerID=8YFLogxKen
dc.identifier.vol8en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPloS ONEen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciencesen
dc.subjectGeneral Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biologyen
dc.subjectGeneral Medicineen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleEnergetic Benefits of Sociality Offset the Costs of Parasitism in a Cooperative Mammalen
dc.typeJournal articleen

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