Plumage brightness and age predict extrapair fertilization success of male tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1777-1784

  Bitton, Pierre Paul ^a   O'Brien, Erin L ^a   Dawson, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

age; extrapair paternity; genetic diversity; mate choice; plumage; sexual selection; social monogamy; Tachycineta bicolor; tree swallow

Indexed keywords

AGE; BREEDING POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MATE CHOICE; MONOGAMY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; PLUMAGE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 36749016296     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.03.018     Document Type: Article

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