Copulation behavior, mate guarding, and paternity in the Semipalmated Plover

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 231-235

  Zharikov, Yuri ^a,b   Nol, Erica ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breeding densities; Charadrius semipalmatus; Extra pair paternity; Multilocus DNA fingerprinting; Open habitat; Semipalmated Plover

Indexed keywords

COITUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FERTILIZATION; MATING SYSTEM;

CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS;

EID: 0033952987     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370431     Document Type: Article

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