Multiple benefits of cooperative breeding in purplecrowned fairy-wrens: A consequence of fidelity?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 757-768

  Kingma, Sjouke A ^a   Hall, Michelle L ^a   Arriero, Elena ^a   Peters, Anne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communal breeding; Delayed dispersal; Helpers at the nest; Kin selection; Mixed model; Parental investment; Philopatry; Promiscuity

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BREEDING POPULATION; COLONIAL BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FEEDING; FLEDGING; GROUP SIZE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; MONOGAMY; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; PHILOPATRY; PHYLOGENETICS; SURVIVAL;

AVES; MALURUS; MALURUS CORONATUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAIR BOND; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SONGBIRDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957675333     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01697.x     Document Type: Article

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