Optimal Foraging: A Bird in the Hand Released

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Nahum, Joshua ^a   Kerr, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 43049102022     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.072     Document Type: Short Survey

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