Female-solicited extrapair matings in Humboldt penguins fail to produce extrapair fertilizations

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 242-250

  Schwartz, Michael K ^a,b,d   Boness, Daryl J ^a   Schaeff, Catherine M ^b   Majluf, Patricia ^c   Perry, Elizabeth A ^a   Fleischer, Robert C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epiphenomenon; Extrapair fertilization; Extrapair mating; Female choice; Humboldt penguins; Mate appraisal; Spheniscus humboldti

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILIZATION; MATING SYSTEM;

COPULATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD;

SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCIFORMES; SPHENISCUS HUMBOLDTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032969448     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.3.242     Document Type: Article

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