Testosterone treatment of female Superb Fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus induces a male-like prenuptial moult, but no coloured plumage

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Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-127

  Peters, Anne ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; FEATHER; FEMALE; MOLT; PASSERINE; TESTOSTERONE;

MALURUS CYANEUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 33846220710     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00616.x     Document Type: Article

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