Food supplementation experiments: A tool to reveal mechanisms that mediate timing of reproduction

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 480-492

  Schoech, Stephan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES; CORVIDAE;

EID: 71049150414     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp005     Document Type: Article

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