Confidence of paternity, actual paternity and parental effort by purple martins

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 123-132

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

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PATERNITY CONFIDENCE; PURPLE MARTIN;

PROGNE SUBIS;

EID: 0030442648     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0158     Document Type: Article

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