Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 59-74

  Reid, Jane M ^a   Arcese, Peter ^b   Keller, Lukas F ^c   Germain, Ryan R ^b   Duthie, A Bradley ^a   Losdat, Sylvain ^a   Wolak, Matthew E ^a   Nietlisbach, Pirmin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Inbreeding depression; Kinship; Mate choice; Paternity; Polyandry; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

INBREEDING DEPRESSION; KINSHIP; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; PREDICTION; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTION;

MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPARROWS;

EID: 84925452495     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12557     Document Type: Article

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