Female tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) increase offspring heterozygosity through extrapair mating

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1725-1733

  Stapleton, Mary K ^a   Kleven, Oddmund ^b   Lifjeld, Jan T ^b   Robertson, Raleigh J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extrapair mating; Extrapair paternity; Genetic compatibility; Genetic diversity; Genetic similarity; Heterozygosity; Microsatellites; Tachycineta bicolor; Tree swallows

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; PASSERINE; PATERNITY;

AVES; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 34547665629     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0404-4     Document Type: Article

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