Female choice for male morphological traits in house sparrows, Passer domesticus

Ethology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 639-648

  Kimball, Rebecca T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

BIB SIZE; BILL DEPTH; FEMALE CHOICE; HOUSE SPARROW; MATE CHOICE;

EID: 0029660964     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01155.x     Document Type: Article

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