How female reed buntings benefit from extra-pair mating behaviour: Testing hypotheses through patterns of paternity in sequential broods

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2589-2600

  Bouwman, Karen M ^a   Burke, Terry ^b   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emberiza schoeniclus; Extra pair paternity; Genetic benefits; Genetic compatibility; Good genes; Mate switching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FATHER; FEMALE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ANIMALS; FATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS;

EID: 33745919241     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02955.x     Document Type: Article

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