Sex allocation in response to maternal condition: Different tactics of care-giving by male and female zebra finches

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 511-520

  Foster, Valerie S ^a   Burley, Nancy Tyler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; MATERNAL CARE; PASSERINE; PATERNAL CARE; SEX ALLOCATION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 34247136788     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01350.x     Document Type: Article

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