Incomplete female knowledge of male quality may explain variation in extra-pair paternity in birds

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 353-371

  Slagsvold, Tore ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 0031527088     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997X00584     Document Type: Article

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