Hatching order explains an extrapair chick advantage in western bluebirds

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 802-807

  Ferree, Elise D ^a   Dickinson, Janis ^a,b   Rendell, Wallace ^c   Stern, Caitlin ^b   Porter, Stephanie ^d  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Loyalist College   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

extrapair paternity; genetic benefits; hatching asynchrony; hatching order; laying order; maternal effects

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PATERNITY; SONGBIRD;

SIALIA MEXICANA;

EID: 77954368233     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq056     Document Type: Article

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