Extrapair paternity in the red bishop (Euplectes orix): Is there evidence for the good-genes hypothesis?

Behaviour

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 777-800

  Friedl, Thomas W P ^a   Klump, Georg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0036591319     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853902320262817     Document Type: Article

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