Certainty of paternity and paternal investment in eastern bluebirds and tree swallows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 845-860

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a,b,c   Lanctot, Richard B ^a,d   Robertson, Raleigh J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d US National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTERN BLUEBIRD; PATERNAL INVESTMENT; PATERNITY; TREE SWALLOW;

SIALIA SIALIS; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 0032056011     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0667     Document Type: Article

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