Variable mating strategies and incest avoidance in cooperatively breeding grey-crowned babblers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-70

  Blackmore, Caroline J ^a   Heinsohn, Robert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cooperative breeding; extrapair fertilization; grey crowned babbler; incest avoidance; Pomatostomus temporalis

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FITNESS; KINSHIP; PASSERINE; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

AVES; POMATOSTOMUS TEMPORALIS; TIMALIIDAE;

EID: 37349072827     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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