A test of the good-genes-as-heterozygosity hypothesis using red-winged blackbirds

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 619-625

  Weatherhead, Patrick J ^a   Dufour, Kevin W ^a   Lougheed, Stephen C ^b   Eckert, Christopher G ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fitness; Fluctuating asymmetry; Good genes; Heterozygosity; Isozymes; Red winged blackbirds

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FITNESS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; HETEROZYGOSITY; MATE CHOICE;

ACARI; AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 0033401132     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.6.619     Document Type: Article

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