Extrapair mating between relatives in the barn swallow: A role for kin selection?

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 389-392

  Kleven, Oddmund ^a   Jacobsen, Frode ^a   Robertson, Raleigh J ^b   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extrapair mating; Hirundo rustica; Inclusive fitness; Kin selection; Optimal relatedness

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; KIN SELECTION; PATERNITY; RELATEDNESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KIN SELECTION; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RANDOMIZATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWALLOW (BIRD);

ANIMALIA; AVES; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; HIRUNDO RUSTICA ERYTHROGASTER;

EID: 29144472229     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0376     Document Type: Article

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