Pre-dawn infidelity: Females control extra-pair mating in superb fairy-wrens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1442, 2000, Pages 465-470

  Double, Michael ^a   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avian mating systems; Extra pair copulation; Malurus cyaneus; Mate choice; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INFERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY;

AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0034615641     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1023     Document Type: Article

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