Post-copulatory sexual selection and the Zebra Finch

Emu

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-198

  Birkhead, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; GENOME; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESEARCH WORK; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; VELOCITY; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77955911514     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU09086     Document Type: Review

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