Male house sparrows behave as if a fertilization window exists

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1141-1144

  Hankinson, Misty D ^a   Mock, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 0032724309     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089696     Document Type: Article

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