Female mating preferences and offspring survival: Testing hypotheses on the genetic basis of mate choice in a wild lekking bird

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 933-946

  Sardell, Rebecca J ^a   Kempenaers, Bart ^b   Duval, Emily H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

compatibility; genetic benefits; good genes; inbreeding avoidance; relatedness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPATIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC BENEFITS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GOOD GENES; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPATIBILITY; GENETIC BENEFITS; GOOD GENES; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; RELATEDNESS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84893342185     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12652     Document Type: Article

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