Do blood parasites affect paternity, provisioning and mate-guarding in purple martins?

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 520-523

  Wagner, Richard H ^a   Davidar, Priva ^b   Schug, Malcolm D ^c   Morton, Eugene S ^d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra pair fertilization; Haemoproteus; Microfilaria; Parasite; Progne subis; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004391069     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369959     Document Type: Article

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