High paternity without paternity-assurance behavior in the purple sandpiper, a species with high paternal investment

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 602-612

  Pierce, Elin P ^a   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MATING SYSTEM; PATERNITY;

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PATERNAL INVESTMENT; PATERNITY-ASSURANCE BEHAVIOUR; SHOREBIRD;

CALIDRIS MARITIMA;

EID: 0031852790     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089409     Document Type: Article

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