No evidence for offspring sex-ratio adjustment to social or environmental conditions in cooperatively breeding purple-crowned fairy-wrens

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1203-1213

  Kingma, Sjouke A ^a   Hall, Michelle L ^a,b,c   Peters, Anne ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Extra pair paternity; Malurus; Primary sex ratio; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROUP SIZE; HABITAT QUALITY; HELPING BEHAVIOR; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PATERNITY; PHILOPATRY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; TERRITORY;

AVES; MALURUS; MALURUS CORONATUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79956137346     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1133-7     Document Type: Article

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