Experimental mate switching in pied flycatchers: Male copulatory access and fertilization success

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1225-1232

  Lifjeld, Jan T ^a   Slagsvold, Tore ^a   Ellegren, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

COPULATORY ACCESS; FERTILIZATION SUCCESS; MATE SWITCHING; PIED FLYCATCHERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0031150179     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0430     Document Type: Article

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