Extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus as revealed by multilocus DNA fingerprinting

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Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-20

  Buchanan, Katherine L ^a,b   Catchpole, Clive K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; INTRASPECIFIC BROOD PARASITISM; MONOGAMY; PHENOTYPE; POLYGYNY; POPULATION GENETICS;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS;

EID: 0033985813     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb07678.x     Document Type: Article

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