Rates of parasitism, but not allocation of egg resources, vary among and within hosts of a generalist avian brood parasite

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2017-04-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-017-3870-zPMID 28429139
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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