Male and female behaviour and extra-pair paternity in the wheatear

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 689-703

  Currie, D R ^a,c   Burke, T ^a   Whitney, R L ^a   Thompson, D B A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION;

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MATE GUARDING; PATERNITY; TERRITORY; WHEATEAR;

OENANTHE OENANTHE; OENATHE OENATHE;

EID: 0031895812     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0750     Document Type: Article

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