Paternal investment inversely related to degree of extra-pair paternity in the reed bunting

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Summary

An exceptionally high proportion of extra-pair paternity is found in a wild population of reed buntings using single-locus DNA fingerprinting and it is proposed that males can assess their likelihood of paternity and adjust their nestling provisioning rates accordingly.

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article
Published
1994-10-01
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Keywords

Bunting, Biology, Brood, Nest (protein structural motif), Population

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