Cloacal microbes in house sparrows

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 679-684

  Stewart, Reuven ^a,c   Rambo, T Birch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloaca; Copulation; Egg failure; House Sparrow; Microbes; Passer domesticus

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; FUNGI; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 0033626848     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369801     Document Type: Article

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