Extrapair paternity and egg hatchability in tree swallows: Evidence for the genetic compatibility hypothesis?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 304-311

  Kempenaers, Bart ^a,b,c   Congdon, Brad ^a   Boag, Peter ^a   Robertson, Raleigh J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extrapair fertilization; Genetic compatibility; Genetic diversity; Good genes; Microsatellite DNA fingerprinting; Multiple paternity; Tachycineta bicolor; Tree swallows

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; GENETIC DIVERSITY; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

HATCHING; PASSERINE; PATERNITY;

AVES; HIRUNDINIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033046608     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.3.304     Document Type: Article

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