Reduced costs of mixed-species pairings in flycatchers: By-product or female strategy?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-337

  Veen, Thor ^a,b,c,e   Träff, Johan ^d   Weissing, Franz J ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Cornwall Campus ^*  (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extra pair paternity; Ficedula flycatchers; Hybridisation; Mate choice; Paternity analysis; Species incompatibility

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; INCOMPATIBILITY; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; PAIR BOND; PATERNITY; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO; SONGBIRD;

FICEDULA; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 60049101458     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0665-6     Document Type: Article

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