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Identifying the Critical Climatic Time Window That Affects Trait Expression

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Estimating genetic benefits of polyandry from experimental studies: a meta-analysis

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MHC-dependent survival in a wild population: evidence for hidden genetic benefits gained through extra-pair fertilizations

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Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies

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Females Use Multiple Mating and Genetically Loaded Sperm Competition to Target Compatible Genes

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Superb fairy-wren males aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extragroup fertilizations before dawn

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Female infidelity and genetic compatibility in birds: the role of the genetically loaded raffle in understanding the function of extrapair paternity

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Helping effort increases with relatedness in bell miners, but 'unrelated' helpers of both sexes still provide substantial care

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Demography of male reproductive queues in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus

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Swingin' in the rain: condition dependence and sexual selection in a capricious world

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Variable mating strategies and incest avoidance in cooperatively breeding grey-crowned babblers

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Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function

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