Should I stay or should I go? Female brood desertion and male counterstrategy in rock sparrows

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 435-441

  Griggio, Matteo ^a   Matessi, Giuliano ^b   Pilastro, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Courtship; Fertility cue; Mate guarding; Parental care; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BROOD DESERTION; COURTSHIP; MATE GUARDING; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE;

PASSERIDAE; PETRONIA PETRONIA;

EID: 14644402495     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari009     Document Type: Article

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