Testosterone, cuckoldry risk and extra-pair opportunities in the Seychelles warbler

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1543, 2004, Pages 1023-1031

  Van De Crommenacker, Janske ^a,b   Richardson, David S ^c,d   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a   Eising, Corine M ^a   Dekker, Arjan L ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Paternity; Seychelles warbler; Sperm storage; Status; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLOACA; COPULATION; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM PRESERVATION;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; ENTEROBACTER; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442682671     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2697     Document Type: Article

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