Sexual selection in a socially monogamous bird: Male color predicts paternity success in the mountain bluebird, sialia currucoides

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-411

  Balenger, Susan L ^a,b   Johnson, L Scott ^a   Masters, Brian S ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extra pair paternity; Mountain bluebird; Sexual selection; Sialia currucoides; Structural plumage color

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; MULTIPLE MATING; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI; SIALIA CURRUCOIDES;

EID: 60049099143     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0674-5     Document Type: Article

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