Organization of vertebrate annual cycles: Implications for control mechanisms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1490, 2008, Pages 425-441

  Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Life history stage; Migration; Moult; Phenotypic flexibility; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37049010705     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2149     Document Type: Review

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