Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit

Nature

Volumn 357, Issue 6378, 1992, Pages 494-496

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a   Verheyen, Geert R ^a   Van Den Broeck, Marleen ^a   Burke, Terry ^b   Broeckhoven, Christine Van ^a   Dhondt, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; ANIMALIA;

BLUE TIT; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MATE SELECTION; PATERNITY; TIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COPULATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0026615346     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/357494a0     Document Type: Article

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