Why egg yolk is yellow.

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2000-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01774-7PMID 10652553
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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