Digestive responses during food restriction and realimentation in nestling house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 561-573

  Lepczyk, Christopher A ^a,c   Caviedes Vidal, Enrique ^b   Karasov, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0032168429     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515965     Document Type: Article

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