EXTRA-PAIR PATERNITY IN THE COMMON MURRE

Tim R. Birkhead; Ben J. Hatchwell; Robert Lindner; Donald Blomqvist; E. Jayne Pellatt; Richard Griffiths; Jan T. Lifjeld

doi:10.1650/0010-5422(2001)103[0158:EPPITC]2.0.CO;2

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Tim R. Birkhead,^1,* Ben J. Hatchwell,¹ Robert Lindner,¹ Donald Blomqvist,² E. Jayne Pellatt,³ Richard Griffiths,⁴ Jan T. Lifjeld⁵

¹aDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
²bKonrad Lorenz Institute, Savoyenstrasse 1a, A-1160 Vienna, Austria
³cDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
⁴dGraham Kerr Building, Glasgow University, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
⁵eZoological Museum, Sars gate 1, N-0562 Oslo, Norway

^*T.R.Birkhead@sheffield.ac.uk

Abstract

Multi-locus DNA fingerprinting was used to estimate the frequency of extra-pair paternity in the Common Murre (Uria aalge), a colonial, sexually monomorphic seabird that breeds at very high densities and in which extra-pair copulation is frequent. Common Murres produce a single chick. We detected 6 cases of extra-pair paternity in 77 families (7.8%). This value was higher than the proportion of successful extra-pair copulations (1.6%) estimated from behavioral data from an earlier study of the same population.

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Tim R. Birkhead, Ben J. Hatchwell, Robert Lindner, Donald Blomqvist, E. Jayne Pellatt, Richard Griffiths, and Jan T. Lifjeld "EXTRA-PAIR PATERNITY IN THE COMMON MURRE," The Condor 103(1), 158-162, (1 February 2001). https://doi.org/10.1650/0010-5422(2001)103[0158:EPPITC]2.0.CO;2

Received: 31 May 2000; Accepted: 1 October 2000; Published: 1 February 2001

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