The use of DNA fingerprinting to determine the possible mating system of an obligate brood parasitic bird, the Cuckoo Cuculus canorus

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Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 560-562

  Jones, David A ^a   Gibbs, H Lisle ^a   Matsuda, Takashi ^b   Brooke, M D L ^c   Uchida, Hiroshi ^b   Bayliss, Michael J ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Cambridge ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 0030762966     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1997.tb04672.x     Document Type: Article

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