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- Title
Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour.
- Authors
Sheldon, Ben C.; Mangel, Marc
- Abstract
The article discusses a study by S. Eliassen and C. Jørgensen regarding the extra-pair mating be female birds, which creates an incentive for male cooperation with other birds. Topics include the development of genetic markers in the 1980s aimed at understanding organisms' mating patterns, the fitness variation among male birds, and the causes of extra-pair copulation (EPC) behavior which results to extra-pair fertilizations.
- Subjects
ANIMAL sexual behavior; SEXUAL behavior in birds; GENETIC markers; ORNITHOLOGY; FERTILIZATION (Biology)
- Publication
Nature, 2014, Vol 512, Issue 7515, p381
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/512381a