Synchronous polyandry and multiple paternity in the frog Crinia georgiana (Anura: Myobatrachidae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 721-726

  Dale Roberts, J ^a   Standish, Rachel J ^a,b   Byrne, Phillip G ^a   Doughty, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROG; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CRINIA GEORGIANA; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 0033104523     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1019     Document Type: Article

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