Natural extrapair paternity matches receptivity patterns in unguarded females: Evidence for importance of female choice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1167-1173

  Ferree, Elise D ^a   Dickinson, Janis L ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Extrapair paternity; Female choice; Male male competition; Sexual selection; Sialia mexicana; Western bluebird

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; MAGNITUDE; MATE CHOICE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

SIALIA MEXICANA;

EID: 80054742520     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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