Egg-capping is a cost paid by hosts of interspecific brood parasites

Auk

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 860-865

  Hauber, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG SIZE; EGGSHELL;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER; PHOEBE; SAYORNIS; SAYORNIS PHOEBE;

EID: 0041422495     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090116     Document Type: Article

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