Willow tit Parus montanus extrapair offspring are more heterozygous than their maternal half-siblings

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 355-362

  Lampila, Satu ^a   Orell, Markku ^a   Kvist, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BROOD REARING; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENETIC MARKER; GROWTH RATE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MATE CHOICE; PATERNAL CARE; SIBLING; SONGBIRD;

PARUS MONTANUS; SALIX;

EID: 80053051204     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05349.x     Document Type: Article

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