Extrapair copulations are frequent but unsuccessful in a highly colonial seabird, the little auk, Alle alle

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 433-438

  Wojczulanis Jakubas, Katarzyna ^a   Jakubas, Dariusz ^a   Øigarden, Trond ^b   Lifjeld, Jan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alle alle; extrapair copulation; extrapair paternity; genetic monogamy; little auk

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COLONIAL BREEDING; COLONIAL ORGANISM; COPULATION; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MONOGAMY; PATERNITY; SEABIRD; SPERM COMPETITION;

ALLE ALLE; AVES;

EID: 58349109293     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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