Extrapair paternity in insular African Blue Tits Cyanistes teneriffae is no less frequent than in continental Eurasian Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus

Ibis

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 862-867

  Garcia Del Rey, Eduardo ^a   Kleven, Oddmund ^b,c   Lifjeld, Jan T ^b  

^a Macaronesian Institute of Field Ornithology   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; Clutch size; Genetic variation; Life history; Microsatellites; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION;

CANARY ISLANDS; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

AVES; CYANISTES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; IBIS;

EID: 84866461155     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01241.x     Document Type: Article

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