The Zebra Finch: The ultimate Australian supermodel

Emu

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Griffith, Simon C ^a   Buchanan, Katherine L ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; GENOME; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77955900740     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MUv110n3_ED     Document Type: Review

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