Paternity covaries with laying and hatching order in the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-11

  Krist, Miloš ^a,b   Nádvorník, Petr ^b   Uvírová, Lenka ^b   Bureš, Stanislav ^b  

^a Museum of Natural History   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Differential allocation; Extra pair paternity; Good genes; Hatching order; Maternal effect

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; HATCHING; MATERNAL EFFECT; PASSERINE;

AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 27744466638     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0002-2     Document Type: Article

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