Repeated evolution of sexual color dimorphism in passerine birds

Auk

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 842-848

  Price, Trevor ^a   Birch, Geoffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0030474121     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4088862     Document Type: Article

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