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A heritable androgenic mechanism of female intrasexual competition in cooperatively breeding meerkats
C. M. Drea, C. S. Davies, L. K. Greene…·T. H. Clutton-Brock
The paper investigates androgen-mediated female intrasexual competition in meerkats, showing that matriarchs' androgen levels influence their behavior and offspring aggression across generations.
DOI 10.1101/2021.01.11.425748