Left-sided directional bias of cloacal contacts during house sparrow copulations

Wilson Bulletin

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 470-473

  Nyland, Karen B ^a,b   Lombardo, Michael P ^a   Thorpe, Patrick A ^a  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

AVES; ENTEROBACTER; PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2342473894     PISSN: 00435643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/03-053     Document Type: Article

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