Extra-pair paternity and male badge size in the House Sparrow

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-102

  Cordero, Pedro J ^a,b   Wetton, Jon H ^a   Parkin, David T ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; PATERNITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033004620     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677248     Document Type: Article

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