Restrictive mate choice criteria cause age-specific inbreeding in female black grouse, Tetrao tetrix

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1497-1503

  Soulsbury, Carl D ^a   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Lebigre, Christophe ^a,b   Siitari, Heli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Black grouse; Inbreeding depression; Incest; Kinship; Lek; Monogamy; Polyandry; Polygyny; Queller Goodnight; Tetrao tetrix

Indexed keywords

AGE; GAMEBIRD; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; KINSHIP; MATE CHOICE; MONOGAMY; PASSERINE; POLYANDRY; RELATEDNESS; RISK FACTOR;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TETRAO TETRIX;

EID: 84861882185     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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