Different traits affect gain of extrapair paternity and loss of paternity in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1103-1110

  Lehtonen, Paula K ^a   Primmer, Craig R ^a   Laaksonen, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

coloration; extrapair copulation; Ficedula hypoleuca; good genes hypothesis; ornament; pied flycatcher; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; PATCH SIZE; PATERNITY; PIGMENT; PLUMAGE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; BIDENS PILOSA; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 64549132483     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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