Genetic parentage and variable social structure in breeding Southern Lapwings

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 554-558

  Saracura, Valéria ^a   Macedo, Regina H ^b   Blomqvist, Donald ^c,d  

^a Eletronorte Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil ^*  (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mating system; Parentage; Paternity; Sociality; Southern Lapwing; Vanellus chilensis

Indexed keywords

VANELLUS; VANELLUS CHILENSIS;

EID: 70349470787     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8477     Document Type: Article

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