Divorce in the barn owl: securing a compatible or better mate entails the cost of re-pairing with a less ornamented female mate

Multiple Paternity in Polyandrous Barn Owls (Tyto alba)

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Disentangling site and mate fidelity in a monogamous population under strong nest site competition

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Females call the shots: breeding dispersal and divorce in blue tits

(2011) Vicente García-Navas et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Association between melanism, physiology and behaviour: A role for the melanocortin system

(2011) Alexandre Roulin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Habitat, breeding performance, diet and individual age in Swiss Barn Owls (Tyto alba)

(2011) Caroline Frey et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Mate change in a socially monogamous mammal: evidences support the “forced divorce” hypothesis

(2010) Sophie Lardy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Age-related change in melanin-based coloration of Barn owls (Tyto alba): females that become more female-like and males that become more male-like perform better

(2010) AMELIE N. DREISS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Sex-dependent selection on an autosomal melanic female ornament promotes the evolution of sex ratio bias

(2010) Alexandre Roulin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Wildflower areas within revitalized agricultural matrices boost small mammal populations but not breeding Barn Owls

(2010) Raphaël Arlettaz et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Mate replacement entails a fitness cost for a socially monogamous seabird

(2009) Stefanie M. H. Ismar et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Divorce and its consequences in the Common Blackbird Turdus merula

(2008) MICHAEL STREIF et al.   IBIS