Extrapair paternity and the opportunity for sexual selection in long-distant migratory passerines

Abstract

EPFs have a potential to play an important role in the evolution of sexually selected traits in long-distance migratory songbirds such as rosefinches

Keywords

• comparative analysis
• mate choice
• parentage assignment
• promiscuity
• scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
• within-pair paternity
• red-winged blackbirds
• pair paternity
• breeding synchrony
• reproductive success
• sperm competition
• carpodacus-erythrinus
• fertilization success
• monogamous songbird
• natural-populations
• parentage analysis