The cost of infidelity to female reed buntings

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 601-608

  Suter, Stefan M ^a   Bielańska, Joanna ^a   Röthlin Spillmann, Sabine ^a   Strambini, Ludivine ^a   Meyer, Dietrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extrapair paternity; Infidelity; Parental care; Paternal care; Reed bunting

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FOOD PROVISIONING; MONOGAMY; PAIR BOND; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

AVES; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS;

EID: 66149106755     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp037     Document Type: Article

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