Age-related variation in primary sexual characters in a passerine with male age-related fertilization success, the bluethroat Luscinia svecica

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-328

  Laskemoen, Terje ^a   Fossøy, Frode ^a,c   Rudolfsen, Geir ^b   Lifjeld, Jan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MATING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

GLOMERA; LUSCINIA SVECICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 44649112478     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2008.04178.x     Document Type: Article

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