Sources of egg-size variation in House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon): Ontogenetic and environmental components

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 800-807

  Styrsky, John D ^a   Dobbs, Robert C ^a   Thompson, Charles F ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; EGG SIZE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; HERITABILITY; ONTOGENY; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0036655623     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089975     Document Type: Article

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