Troubleshooting the potential pitfalls of cross-fostering

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 584-592

  Winney, Isabel ^a   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^a,b   Hsu, Yu Hsun ^b   Burke, Terry ^a   Schroeder, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Chick survival; Field methods; Fitness correlates; Nest boxes; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84929519928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12341     Document Type: Article

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