Where has all the road kill gone?

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Charles R ^a   Bomberger Brown, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LETTER; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; SWALLOW (BIRD); UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLES; NEBRASKA; SWALLOWS; WING;

EID: 84875270992     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.023     Document Type: Letter

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