Extrapair paternity and the opportunity for sexual selection in long-distant migratory passerines

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 477-486

  Albrecht, Tomáš ^a,b   Schnitzer, Jan ^b   Kreisinger, Jakub ^b   Exnerová, Alice ^b   Bryja, Josef ^a   Munclinger, Pavel ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Mate choice; Parentage assignment; Promiscuity; Scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus; Within pair paternity

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FITNESS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS; PASSERI;

EID: 33847664713     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm001     Document Type: Article

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