Extra-Pair Paternity in the European Starling: The Effect of Polygyny
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 95 (4) , 1006-1015
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1369436
Abstract
We determined the frequency of extra-pair paternity and intraspecific brood parasitism in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) by performing multilocus DNA fin...Keywords
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