Haematocrit is weakly related to condition in nestling Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica

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Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-134

  Cuervo, José J ^a   Møller, Anders P ^b   De Lope, Florentino ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; MORPHOLOGY; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

AVES; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 33846191594     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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