Patterns of extra-pair fertilizations in
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Eric K. Bollinger; Thomas A. Gavin
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Article
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1991
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Springer
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English
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We studied patterns of paternity in 840 nestling bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) from 191 pairbonded adults and the chicks they reared in west central New York, USA, during 1983 1986, using allozyme data (4 variable loci). Thirty-six (4.3%) nestlings exhibited genotypes that excluded a putative pa