Evolutionary Biology: Arms Races in the Eye of the Beholder

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Safran, Rebecca J ^a   Vitousek, Maren N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIRD; COLOR; COLOR VISION; EVOLUTION; NESTING; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOLUTION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CUCULIDAE;

EID: 50849084839     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.045     Document Type: Short Survey

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