The function of extrapair paternity in blue tits and great tits: Good genes or fertility insurance?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 649-656

  Krokene, Christin ^a   Rigstad, Kari ^a   Dale, Monica ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Extrapair paternity; Good genes; Infertility insurance; Offspring survival; Parus caeruleus; Parus major

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILITY;

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

NORWAY;

AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0031789113     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.6.649     Document Type: Article

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