Greater food availability reduces tarsus asymmetry in nestling Blue Tits

Condor

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 599-603

  Grieco, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breeding; Developmental stability; Parus caeruleus; Supplemental feeding experiment; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042156802     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7177     Document Type: Article

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