Dispersal as a means of inbreeding avoidance in a wild bird population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1635, 2008, Pages 703-711

  Szulkin, Marta ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Great tit; Inbreeding; Inbreeding avoidance; Parus major; Wild population

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FITNESS; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; NATAL DISPERSAL; PASSERINE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; INBREEDING; MALE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; PARUS MAJOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WYTHAM WOODS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38849167351     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0989     Document Type: Article

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