@article{a8758468c7c04ed497674f4a221d1e03,
title = "Levels of extra-pair paternity are associated with parental care in penduline tits (Remizidae)",
abstract = "In most passerine birds, individuals attempt to maximize their fitness by providing parental care while also mating outside their pair bond. A sex-specific trade-off between these two behaviours is predicted to occur, as the fitness benefits of extra-pair mating differ between the sexes. We use nest observations and parentage analysis to reveal a negative association between male care and the incidence of extra-pair paternity across three species of penduline tit (Remizidae). This provides evidence of a trade-off between these two behaviours, possibly due to the devaluing of paternal care by extra-pair offspring.",
keywords = "Remizidae, extra-pair paternity, parental care, penduline tit, sexual conflict",
author = "Ball, {Alex D.} and {van Dijk}, {Ren{\'e} E.} and Penn Lloyd and {\'A}kos Pog{\'a}ny and Dawson, {Deborah A.} and Steve Dorus and Bowie, {Rauri C.K.} and Terry Burke and Tam{\'a}s Sz{\'e}kely",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the many field assistants who collected data on the Cape Penduline Tit population, as well as Gert Greef, ESKOM and CapeNature for permissions and permits to work at Koeberg Nature Reserve. Our thanks go to Sander Bot and Vera Voronova for help and support conducting the fieldwork on the White-crowned Penduline Tit population in Kazakhstan and to Sergey Sklyarenko at the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan for logistical support. Thanks are also extended to Douglas Ross, Jim Reynolds and three anonymous reviewers for providing comments on the manuscript. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community Sixth Framework Programme (GEBACO; FP6/2002-2006) under contract number 28696. The work received further financial support from the Hungarian-South African Intergovernmental T{\'E}T (OMFB-00564/2006) to T.S., A.P. and P.L., from the Hungarian National Science Foundation OTKA (K109337), from the Schure-Beijerinck Poppingfonds of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (SBP/JK/2007-53) to R.E.vD., and from two University of Bath studentships awarded to R.E.vD. and A.D.B. The molecular work was funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and performed at the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility at the University of Sheffield (NBAF361). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Authors. Ibis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ornithologists{\textquoteright} Union.",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/ibi.12446",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "159",
pages = "449--455",
journal = "Ibis",
issn = "0019-1019",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "2",
}