Radical loss of an extreme extra-pair mating system

BMC Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kingma, Sjouke A ^a   Hall, Michelle L ^a   Segelbacher, Gernot ^b   Peters, Anne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; MALURUS CORONATUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 67049167129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-9-15     Document Type: Article

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