Insurance eggs versus additional eggs: Do brown boobies practice obligate siblicide

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Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 817-820

  Tershy, Bernie R ^a,b   Breese, Dawn ^b   Croll, Donald A ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULA LEUCOGASTER; SULIDAE;

EID: 0033930366     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089611     Document Type: Article

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