Do female red-winged blackbirds benefit genetically from seeking extra-pair copulations?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 605-623

  Gray, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS;

EID: 0031082122     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0337     Document Type: Article

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