The mating strategies of eastern screech-owls: A genetic analysis

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 213-217

  Lawless, Sunni G ^a   Ritchison, Gary ^a   Klatt, Paul H ^b   Westneat, David F ^c  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Eastern Screech Owls; extra pair; extra pair copulations; fertilizations; Otus asio

Indexed keywords

ASIO; OTUS ASIO; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0030951551     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370242     Document Type: Article

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