Male tail streamer length predicts fertilization success in the North American barn swallow (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 412-418

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extra pair paternity; Hirundo rustica; Opportunity for sexual selection; Tail streamer length

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

HIRUNDO RUSTICA; HIRUNDO RUSTICA ERYTHROGASTER; HIRUNDO RUSTICA RUSTICA;

EID: 30744437900     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0065-0     Document Type: Article

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