Eider females form non-kin brood-rearing coalitions

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3903-3908

  Öst, Markus ^a   Vitikainen, Emma ^a   Waldeck, Peter ^b   Sundström, Liselotte ^a   Lindström, Kai ^a   Hollmén, Tuula ^c   Franson, J Christian ^d   Kilpi, Mikael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Animal Ecology ^*  (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body condition; Brood amalgamation; Direct fitness; Kin selection; Partner choice; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

ANAS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCK; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DUCKS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33644682805     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02694.x     Document Type: Article

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