Social mating system affects the frequency of extra-pair paternity in house wrens

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1089-1105

  Soukup, Sheryl Swartz ^a,b   Thompson, Charles F ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR PATERNITY; HOUSE WREN; MATING CYCLE; MONOGAMY; POLYGYNY;

ILLINOIS; USA;

TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE; TROGOLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 0030708571     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0556     Document Type: Article

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