Primary sex-ratio variation in two brood parasitic birds: Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) and Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 561-566

  Kasumovic, Michael M ^a   Gibbs, H Lisle ^a   Woolfenden, Bonnie E ^a   Sealy, Spencer G ^a   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; SEX RATIO;

AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0036097468     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/119.2.561     Document Type: Article

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