Extra-pair paternity in birds: Explaining variation between species and populations

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 52-58

  Petrie, Marion ^a   Kempenaers, Bart ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING DENSITY; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; EXTRA-PAIR PATERNITY; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COPULATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031935701     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01232-9     Document Type: Article

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