Mother guarding: How offspring may influence the extra-pair behaviour of their parents

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1599, 2006, Pages 2363-2368

  Weibergen, Justin A ^a   Quader, Suhel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Extra pair paternity; Female choice

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PATERNITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MOTHER; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748659868     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3591     Document Type: Article

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