Variability of female responses to conspecific vs. heterospecific male mating calls in polygynous deer: An open door to hybridization?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wyman, Megan T ^a   Charlton, Benjamin D ^b   Locatelli, Yann ^c   Reby, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VOCALIZATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CERVIDAE; CERVINAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CERVUS NIPPON;

ANIMALS; DEER; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052014757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023296     Document Type: Article

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