Evidence for organism-wide asymmetry in five bird species of a fragmented afrotropical forest

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1423, 1999, Pages 1055-1060

  Lens, Luc ^a,b   Van Dongen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Developmental stability; Fluctuating asymmetry; Habitat fragmentation; Hypothetical repeatability; Individual asymmetry parameter; Organism wide asymmetry

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; METHODOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; GENETIC STABILITY; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

AVES;

EID: 0033594716     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0743     Document Type: Article

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