High frequency of extra-pair fertilisations in the moustached warbler, a songbird with a variable breeding system

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1139-1154

  Blomqvist, Donald ^a,b   Fessl, Birgit ^a   Hoi, Herbert ^a   Kleindorfer, Sonia ^c  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female benefits; Male helpers; Parental care; Paternity

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALUS MELANOPOGON; PASSERI;

EID: 31344466762     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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