Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds.

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1988-05-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.3363360PMID 3363360
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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