Kin association during brood care in a facultatively social bird: Active discrimination or by-product of partner choice and demography?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3341-3351

  Jaatinen, Kim ^a   Noreikiene, Kristina ^b   Merilä, Juha ^b   Öst, Markus ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

cooperation; fecundity; kin association; kin discrimination; longevity; partner choice; relatedness

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCKS AND GEESE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 84862755283     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05603.x     Document Type: Article

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