Personality is associated with extrapair paternity in great tits, Parus major

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 555-563

  van Oers, Kees ^a,b   Drent, Pieter Jan ^a   Dingemanse, Niels Jeroen ^a,c   Kempenaers, Bart ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

animal personality; behavioural syndrome; exploration; genetic bet hedging; great tit; Parus major; polyandry; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 49149104660     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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