The strength of direct selection against female promiscuity is associated with rates of extrapair fertilizations in socially monogamous songbirds

American Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 739-744

  Albrecht, Tomáš ^a,b   Kreisinger, Jakub ^b   Piálek, Jaroslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Direct costs; Female infidelity; Passerines

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); SELECTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; NESTING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PASSERI;

EID: 33646742394     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502633     Document Type: Article

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