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Covariance of paternity and sex with laying order explains male bias in extra-pair offspring in a wild bird population

It has been hypothesized that parents increase their fitness by biasing the sex ratio of extra-pair offspring (EPO) towards males. Here, we report a male bias among EPO in a wild population of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). This resulted from a decline in both the proportion of males and EPO over...

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Main Authors: Vedder, Oscar, Magrath, Michael J. L., van der Velde, Marco, Komdeur, Jan
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2013
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971709/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24026349
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0616
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