Helpers Liberate Female Fairy-Wrens from Constraints on Extra-Pair Mate Choice

In cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus), all males contribute to the feeding and defence of young. Despite the expectation that such paternal care should be directed only to relatives, DNA fingerprinting revealed that most offspring (76%, 138 out of 181) were sired by extra-gr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 1994-03, Vol.255 (1344), p.223-229
Hauptverfasser: Mulder, Raoul A., Dunn, Peter O., Cockburn, Andrew, Cohen, Katherine A. Lazenby, Howell, Michael J.
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