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Extra-pair paternity and intraspecific brood parasitism in wild zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata, revealed by DNA fingerprinting

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Extra-pair paternity in monogamous tree swallows

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Cuckoldry through stored sperm in the sequentially polyandrous spotted sandpiper

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Patterns of extra-pair fertilizations in bobolinks

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Extra-pair paternity in polygynous tree swallows

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Sperm competition and the reproductive organs of the male and female Dunnock Prunella modularis

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Multiple Paternity in a Wild Population of Mallards

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Copulation behavior and paternity in the chaffinch

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Extra‐pair paternity in the shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis as determined by DNA fingerprinting

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1991 • 28 citations

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1992 • 21 citations

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1989 • 13 citations

Validation of the Heritability Method to Estimate Extra-Pair Paternity in Birds

1992 • 13 citations

Evolutionary ecology of the mating system of superb fairy-wrens

1992 • 12 citations

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1991 • 4 citations

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