Female barn swallows gain indirect but not direct benefits through social mate choice

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 939-947

  Kojima, Wataru ^a   Kitamura, Wataru ^a   Kitajima, Sachie ^a   Ito, Yoko ^b   Ueda, Keisuke ^b   Fujita, Go ^a   Higuchi, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; PASSERINE; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA GUTTURALIS;

EID: 69949099046     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01680.x     Document Type: Article

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