Passerine extrapair mating dynamics: A Bayesian modeling approach comparing four species

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 178-187

  Brommer, Jon E ^a   Alho, Jussi S ^a   Biard, Clotilde ^b   Chapman, Joanne R ^c   Charmantier, Anne ^d   Dreiss, Amelie ^b,o   Hartley, Ian R ^e   Hjernquist, Marten B ^f   Kempenaers, Bart ^g   Komdeur, Jan ^h   Laaksonen, Toni ^i,p   Lehtonen, Paula K ⁱ   Lubjuhn, Thomas ^j   Patrick, Samantha C ^c,q   Rosivall, Balazs ^k   Tinbergen, Joost M ^h   Van Der Velde, Marco ^h   Van Oers, Kees ^l   Wilk, Tomasz ^m   Winkel, Wolfgang ⁿ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^k EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^l NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^m JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Bird; Extrapair paternity; Mate choice; Mating systems; Promiscuity; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; MATE CHOICE; NESTLING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 77955602293     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653660     Document Type: Article

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