Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) inseminations are more likely to fertilize eggs in a context predicting mating opportunities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1525, 2003, Pages 1685-1689

  Adkins Regan, Elizabeth ^a   MacKillop, Emiko A ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Japanese quail; Pavlovian conditioning; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMEBIRD; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BRAIN LEVEL; BREEDING SUCCESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COTURNIX JAPONICA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING; MATING SUCCESS; MATING SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0041376454     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2421     Document Type: Article

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