Reed bunting females increase fitness through extra-pair mating with genetically dissimilar males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1627, 2007, Pages 2865-2871

  Suter, Stefan M ^a   Keiser, Martin ^a   Feignoux, Raoul ^a   Meyer, Dietrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extra pair paternity; Genetic compatibility; Genetic relatedness; Heterozygosity; Promiscuity; Reed bunting

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MONOGAMY; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; SIBLING; SURVIVAL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIRD; HETEROZYGOSITY; MATING TYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REED BUNTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS;

EID: 35848968921     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0799     Document Type: Article

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