Evolution of male parental care in a bird with almost complete cuckoldry

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2542-2548

  Dunn, Peter O ^a,b   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; DNA fingerprinting; extra pair paternity; fairy wren; helpers; Malurus cyaneus; superb

Indexed keywords

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0030484782     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03643.x     Document Type: Article

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