Extra-pair young in house wren broods are more likely to be male than female

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2285-2289

  Johnson, L Scott ^a   Thompson, Charles F ^b   Sakaluk, Scott K ^b   Neuhäuser, Markus ^c   Johnson, Bonnie G P ^a   Soukup, Sheryl Swartz ^b   Forsythe, Shannon Janota ^b   Masters, Brian S ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extra pair mating; House wren; Paternity; Sex allocation; Sex ratio; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SONGBIRD; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 66749179485     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0283     Document Type: Article

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