Female ground tits prefer relatives as extra-pair partners: Driven by kin-selection?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2851-2863

  Wang, Chen ^a   Lu, Xin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cooperative breeding; extra pair mating; genetic compatibility; ground tit; kin selection

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PASSERIFORMES; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIBET;

AVES; PARUS;

EID: 79959641550     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05070.x     Document Type: Article

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