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Evolutionary biology : Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?

Evolutionary biology : Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?

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Evolutionary biology : Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?

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Evolutionary biology : Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?

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Nature Publishing Group

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Nature (London), 2003-04, Vol.422 (6934), p.833-834

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English

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Blomqvist et al. reply-Griffith and Montgomerie question our finding that extra-pair parentage in shorebirds correlates with the genetic similarity of social mates, on the grounds that band-sharing coefficients (calculated by comparing bands on DNA fingerprints) are unreliable for determining the degree of genetic similarity between two individuals...

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Evolutionary biology : Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation?

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_18844210

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_18844210

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0028-0836

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10.1038/422833b

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