Extrapair mating system of an asynchronously breeding tropical songbird: The Mangrove Swallow

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1039-1046

  Moore, Owen R ^a   Stutchbury, Bridget J M ^a   Quinn, James S ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SYNCHRONY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; HIRUNDINIDAE; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TACHYCINETA ALBILINEA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 0032697511     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089683     Document Type: Article

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