Homosexual behaviour in birds: Frequency of expression is related to parental care disparity between the sexes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-390

  MacFarlane, Geoff R ^a   Blomberg, Simon P ^b   Vasey, Paul L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal homosexual behaviour; Bird; Female female; Male male; Parental care; Polygamy; Same sex sexual behaviour; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; COURTSHIP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARENTAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 77955584511     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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