Copulation rate and sperm use by female bearded tits, Panurus biarmicus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1199-1204

  Sax, Andreas ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^a   Birkhead, Tim R ^b  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; MULTIPLE MATING; PASSERINE; SPERM COMPETITION;

PANURUS BIARMICUS;

EID: 0032213703     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0859     Document Type: Article

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