Partner’s age, not social environment, predicts extrapair paternity in wild great tits (Parus major)

An individual’s fitness is not only influenced by its own phenotype, but by the phenotypes of interacting conspecifics. This is likely to be particularly true when considering fitness gains and losses caused by extrapair matings, as they depend directly on the social environment. While previous work...

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Auteurs principaux: Roth, AM, Firth, JA, Patrick, SC, Cole, EF, Sheldon, BC
Format: Journal article
Langue:English
Publié: Oxford University Press 2019