Sperm length variation as a predictor of extrapair paternity in passerine birds.

The rate of extrapair paternity is a commonly used index for the risk of sperm competition in birds, but paternity data exist for only a few percent of the approximately 10400 extant species. As paternity analyses require extensive field sampling and costly lab work, species coverage in this field w...

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Main Authors: Jan T Lifjeld, Terje Laskemoen, Oddmund Kleven, Tomas Albrecht, Raleigh J Robertson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2956655?pdf=render