Female Red-backed Fairy-wrens (Malurus melanocephalus) do not appear to pay a cost for high rates of promiscuity

Auk

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 529-536

  Varian Ramos, Claire W ^a,c   Lindsay, Willow R ^a   Karubian, Jordan ^b   Webster, Michael S ^a,d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct costs; Extrapair paternity; Malurus melanocephalus; Paternal care; Reproductive success; Survival

Indexed keywords

EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; MONOGAMY; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL;

MALURUS MELANOCEPHALUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84864710063     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2012.11226     Document Type: Article

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