Extrapair paternity and the evolution of bird song

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 508-519

  Garamszegi, László Zsolt ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

Bird song; Evolution; Extrapair paternity; Generalized least squares; Meta analysis; Repertoire size; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; META-ANALYSIS; PATERNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 1442265770     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh041     Document Type: Article

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