Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6907, 2002, Pages 613-615

  Blomqvist, Donald ^a   Andersson, Malte ^b   Küpper, Clemens ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^c   Kis, János ^d   Lanctot, Richard B ^e   Sandercock, Brett K ^f   Székely, Tamás ^g   Wallander, Johan ^b   Kempenaers, Bart ^h  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^f KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS;

HOMOZYGOSITY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DNA;

BIRD; GENETICS; MATING BEHAVIOR; NATURAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0037057615     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01104     Document Type: Article

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