Colour bands, mate choice and paternity in the bluethroat

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-119

  Johnsen, Arild ^a   Fiske, Peder ^b   Amundsen, Trond ^b   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a   Rohde, Percy A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PATERNITY;

LUSCINIA;

EID: 0033952971     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1274     Document Type: Article

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