Sex-role reversal and the absence of extra-pair fertilization in Wilson's phalaropes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 995-1002

  Delehanty, David J ^a,c   Fleischer, Robert C ^b   Colwell, Mark A ^a,d   Oring, Lewis W ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EECB Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR FERTILIZATION; MILSON'S PHALAROPE; PARENTAL CARE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT; SEX-ROLE REVERSAL;

AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES; GALLIFORMES; PHALAROPUS; PHALAROPUS TRICOLOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032052630     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0670     Document Type: Article

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