No evidence for inbreeding avoidance through active mate choice in red-billed gulls

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 672-675

  Alho, Jussi S ^a   Teplitsky, Céline ^b   Mills, James A ^c   Yarrall, John W ^c   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b CP51   (France)

^c 14 Ashgrove Court ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

aves; inbreeding; inbreeding avoidance; pedigree; relatedness

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; DISPERSAL; GENEALOGY; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PAIR BOND; PHILOPATRY; RELATEDNESS; SEABIRD;

KAIKOURA; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

AVES; LARUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE SCOPULINUS; LARUS SCOPULINUS;

EID: 84859516924     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars014     Document Type: Article

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