Fluctuating asymmetry and copulation success in lekking black grouse

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 265-269

  Rintamäki, Pekka T ^a,b   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Höglund, Jacob ^b   Lundberg, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENA; PHASIANIDAE; TETRAO TETRIX; TETRIX;

EID: 0031215022     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0434     Document Type: Article

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