Familiarity between mates improves few aspects of reproductive performance in house sparrows

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-376

  Hatch, Margret I ^a,b   Westneat, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pair bond; Parental behavior; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 38149102577     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908783402867     Document Type: Article

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