Developmental evolution of sexual ornamentation: Model and a test of feather growth and pigmentation

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-233

  Badyaev, Alexander V ^a   Landeen, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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EID: 34250781425     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm058     Document Type: Article

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