Male parental effort and paternity in a variable mating system

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 629-640

  Whittingham, Linda A ^a,b   Dunn, Peter O ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c St Luke's Sinai Samaritan Med C

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATING SYSTEM; PARENTAL EFFORT; PATERNITY; WHITE-BROWED SCRUBWREN;

SERICONIS FRONTALIS; SERICORNIS FRONTALIS;

EID: 0031948033     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0751     Document Type: Article

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