Investment in nesting activities and patterns of extra- and within-group genetic paternity in a cooperatively breeding bird

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-23

  Williams, Dean A ^a,b   Hale, Amanda M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown Jays; Consort behavior; Cooperative breeding; Cyanocorax morio; New World jays; Social birds

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVIDAE; PSILORHINUS MORIO;

EID: 67649859384     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.110.1.13     Document Type: Article

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