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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Main Authors: Roth, AM, Firth, JA, Patrick, SC, Cole, EF, Sheldon, BC
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019