Inbreeding and divorce in blue and great tits

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 737-740

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a   Adriaensen, Frank ^a   Dhondt, André A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HATCHING; INBREEDING; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE;

AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0032168346     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0800     Document Type: Article

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