Male mating strategies and the mating system of great-tailed grackles

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 132-141

  Johnson, Kristine ^a,e   DuVal, Emily ^b   Kielt, Megan ^c   Hughes, Colin ^d  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Miami ^*  (United States)

^d Department of Biology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional mating tactics; Great tailed grackles; Male mating strategies; Mating systems; Quiscalus mexicanus; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIRD; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS;

EID: 0034050795     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.2.132     Document Type: Article

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