Breeding season-specific sex diagnostics in the monomorphic House Martin delichon urbicum

Bird Study

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-131

  Piersma, Theunis ^a   Velde, Marco Van Der ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIRD; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BREEDING; DNA; INCUBATION; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

DELICHON; DELICHON URBICA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 66249102655     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650802648242     Document Type: Article

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