A long photoperiod overrides non-photoperiodic factors in blue tits' timing of reproduction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1443, 2000, Pages 585-588

  Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a   Perret, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Avian reproduction; Blue tit; Captive animals; Parus caeruleus; Seasonal breeding

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034701185     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1041     Document Type: Article

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