Adoption of chicks and the level of relatedness in common gull, Larus canus, colonies: DNA fingerprinting analyses

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-299

  Bukaciński, Dariusz ^a,b   Bukacińska, Monika ^a,b   Lubjuhn, Thomas ^b  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; KIN SELECTION THEORY; LARUS CANUS; POLAND;

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; COLONIAL BREEDING; KIN SELECTION; RELATEDNESS; SEABIRD;

POLAND; VISTULA RIVER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; LARUS CANUS;

EID: 0033836359     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1298     Document Type: Article

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