Females tend to prefer genetically similar mates in an island population of house sparrows.

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Published in BMC Evol Biol on March 12, 2014

Authors

Coraline Bichet1, Dustin J Penn, Yoshan Moodley, Luc Dunoyer, Elise Cellier-Holzem, Marie Belvalette, Arnaud Grégoire, Stéphane Garnier, Gabriele Sorci

Author Affiliations

1: Biogéosciences, UMR CNRS 6282, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France. coraline.bichet@u-bourgogne.fr.

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