Breeding synchronization facilitates extrapair mating for inbreeding avoidance

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1390-1397

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extrapair paternity; Genetic compatibility; Incest avoidance; Mating strategies; Promiscuity; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; FERTILITY; FITNESS; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; SYNCHRONY;

EID: 84886070284     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art078     Document Type: Article

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