Extrapair paternity in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus): Female choice, male characteristics, and offspring quality

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 481-492

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a,b,d   Verheyen, Geert R ^a   Dhondt, André A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^d KLIVV   (Austria)

Author keywords

Good genes; Mate choice; Parus careuleus; Song; Sperm competition; Survival

Indexed keywords

BLUE TIT; EXTRA-PARI PATERNITY; FEMALE CHOICE; MALE FITNESS; OFFSPRING QUALITY;

AVES; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0031474659     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/8.5.481     Document Type: Article

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