Nest parasitism in the barnacle goose: evidence from protein fingerprinting and microsatellites

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-174

  Anderholm, Sofia ^a   Marshall, Rupert C ^a,b   van der Jeugd, Henk P ^c,d   Waldeck, Peter ^a   Larsson, Kjell ^e   Andersson, Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^e GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

adoption; albumen fingerprinting; barnacle goose; best of bad job; Branta leucopsis; brood parasitism; egg; female alternative reproductive tactic; microsatellite profiling

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CONSPECIFIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HATCHING; INCUBATION; MONOGAMY; PROTEIN; WATERFOWL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ANSER; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

EID: 67349275436     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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