Breeding experience, alternative reproductive strategies and reproductive success in a captive colony of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Baran, Nicole M ^a   Adkins Regan, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; CHICK; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PATERNITY; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; PAIR BOND; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896114309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089808     Document Type: Article

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