Trading up: The fitness consequences of divorce in monogamous birds

Biological Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1015-1034

  Culina, Antica ^a   Radersma, Reinder ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptiveness; Birds; Breeding success; Divorce; Fitness; Life history; Mating; Meta analysis; Monogamy; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIRD; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL;

EID: 84943421707     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12143     Document Type: Article

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