Sperm storage reflects within- and extra-pair mating opportunities in a cooperatively breeding bird

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1115-1123

  Kingma, Sjouke A ^a,b   Hall, Michelle L ^a,c   Peters, Anne ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloaca; Extra pair paternity; Intra sexual competition; Malurus; Post copulatory sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

AVES; MALURUS; MALURUS CORONATUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84864366969     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1363-y     Document Type: Article

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