Adaptive fault bar distribution in a long-distance migratory, aerial forager passerine?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 455-461

  Serrano, David ^a   Jovani, Roger ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barn swallow; Fault bar allocation hypothesis; Feathers; Flight requirements; Hirundo rustica; Stress bands

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FEATHER;

AVES; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 23144436446     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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