Delayed song maturation and territorial aggression in a songbird

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 369-371

  Poesel, Angelika ^a   Nelson, Douglas A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Delayed maturation; Mutual assessment; Sexual traits; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; MATURATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; PASSERI; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 84861523966     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1119     Document Type: Article

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