Genetic similarity of mates, offspring health and extrapair fertilization in house sparrows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-378

  Edly Wright, Christine ^a   Schwagmeyer, P L ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^b   Mock, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; extrapair fertilization; house sparrow; mate choice; multiple mating; offspring viability and immunocompetence; Passer domesticus; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MATE CHOICE; MULTIPLE MATING; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPERM COMPETITION; VIABILITY;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 33846419160     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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