Reproductive allocation in female house wrens is not influenced by experimentally altered male attractiveness

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1247-1258

  Grana, Susan C ^a   Sakaluk, Scott K ^a   Bowden, Rachel M ^a   Doellman, Melissa A ^a   Vogel, Laura A ^a   Thompson, Charles F ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation hypothesis; Differential allocation hypothesis; Mate choice; Parental investment; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTANT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; NEST SITE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX ALLOCATION;

TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 84865618586     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1378-4     Document Type: Article

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