Sexual conflict over fertilizations: Female bluethroats escape male paternity guards

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 401-408

  Johnsen, Arild ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a   Rohde, Percy A ^a   Primmer, Craig R ^b   Ellegren, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Extra pair paternity; Luscinia s. svecica; Male attractiveness; Mate guarding; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILIZATION; MATING SYSTEM; MICROSATELLITE DNA; NYANZOL D; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE GUARDING; PASSERINE; PATERNITY;

LUSCINIA SVECICA;

EID: 0031683581     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050507     Document Type: Article

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