Cryptic sexual dichromatism occurs across multiple types of plumage in the Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus

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Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 264-270

  Hofmann, Christopher ^a   Lo, Wen Sui ^b   Yao, Cheng Te ^c   Li, Shou Hsien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ENDEMIC SPECIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; COLOR; COLOR MORPH; CRYPSIS; MELANIN; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY;

AVES; PARUS MONTICOLUS;

EID: 34047187525     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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