Reproductive partitioning and the assumptions of reproductive skew models in the cooperatively breeding American crow

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 503-512

  Townsend, Andrea K ^a   Clark, Anne B ^b   McGowan, Kevin J ^a   Lovette, Irby J ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American crow; bird; cooperative breeding; copulation; Corvus brachyrhynchos; inbreeding; incest; mate guarding; mating system; reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; COPULATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; INBREEDING; MATE GUARDING; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS;

EID: 58349096699     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.030     Document Type: Article

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