Corticosterone, reproductive status, and body mass in a cooperative breeder, the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-73

  Schoech, Stephan J ^a,c   Mumme, Ronald L ^b   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS;

EID: 0030981377     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/639545     Document Type: Article

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