Rock sparrow song reflects male age and reproductive success

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Nemeth, Erwin ^a,b   Kempenaers, Bart ^a   Matessi, Giuliano ^c   Brumm, Henrik ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRANCE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PITCH; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SINGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND PRESSURE; SPARROW;

AGING; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPRODUCTION; SINGING; SPARROWS;

EID: 84865294315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043259     Document Type: Article

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