Variation in the number of spermatozoa in Blue Tit and Great Tit eggs

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 246-249

  Lifjeld, Jan T ^a   Aas, Christian K ^a   Birkhead, Tim R ^b   Fletcher, Fiona ^b   Krokene, Christin ^a   Rigstad, Kari ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 0033978186     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2000)117[0246:VITNOS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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