Alien eggs in duck nests: Brood parasitism or a help from Grandma?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3237-3250

  Tiedemann, Ralph ^a   Paulus, Kirsten B ^a   Havenstein, Katja ^a   Thorstensen, Sverrir ^b   Petersen, Aevar ^c   Lyngs, Peter ^d   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Icelandic Institute of Natural History ^*  (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

^d Christiansø Fieldstation of Natural Science   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

eider duck; indirect fitness; intraspecific brood parasitism; microsatellites; relatedness; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

ANAS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 79960628989     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05158.x     Document Type: Article

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