Morphological signals of sex and status in Spotted Bowerbirds

Emu

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-30

  Madden, Joah R ^a,b   Endler, John A ^c,d   Jury, Francine ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL;

AVES; CHLAMYDERA; CHLAMYDERA MACULATA; PASSERIFORMES; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE;

EID: 2342503878     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU03007     Document Type: Article

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