Patterns of fluctuating asymmetry in developing primary feathers: A test of the compensational growth hypothesis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1413, 1998, Pages 2353-2357

  Aparicio, José Miguel ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Developmental stability; Feather growth; Feather length asymmetry; Ontogeny; Passer domesticus; Regulatory mechanisms of asymmetry

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; FEATHER; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEATHER; FLIGHT; GROWTH; HYPOTHESIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032558988     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0583     Document Type: Article

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