Mate opportunity hypothesis and extrapair paternity in waved albatrosses (PHOEBASTRIA IRRORATA)

Auk

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 524-536

  Huyvaert, Kathryn P ^a,c   Anderson, David J ^b   Parker, Patricia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrapair copulations; Extrapair paternity; Mate opportunity hypothesis; Phoebastria irrorata; Protandry; Waved albatross

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MATE ATTRACTION; PATERNITY; PROTANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; PHOEBASTRIA IRRORATA;

EID: 33646574612     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2006)123[524:MOHAEP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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