Does testosterone affect the trade-off between investment in sexual/territorial behaviour and parental care in male great tits?

Behaviour

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1503-1515

  Van Duyse, Els ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 0034556341     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853900502691     Document Type: Article

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