Evidence for a maternal effect benefiting extra-pair offspring in a songbird, the house wren Troglodytes aedon

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 248-253

  Scott Johnson, L ^a   Brubaker, Jessica L ^a   Johnson, Bonnie G P ^a   Masters, Brian S ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; HATCHING; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PATERNITY; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 65649147604     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04777.x     Document Type: Article

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