Testicular asymmetry and secondary sexual characters in Red Junglefowl

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Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-228

  Kimball, Rebecca T ^a   Ligon, J David ^a   Merola Zwartjes, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030995592     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089163     Document Type: Article

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