Reproduction and immune homeostasis in a long-lived seabird, the nazca booby (Sula granti)

Ornithological Monographs

Volumn 65, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-48

  Apanius, Victor ^a   Westbrock, Mark A ^a   Anderson, David J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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SULA GRANTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 49249129693     PISSN: 00786594     EISSN: 19412282     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1525/om.2008.65.1.1     Document Type: Article

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