Evicting cuckoo nestlings from the nest: a new anti-parasitism behaviour

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2010-02-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0540PMID 19776068PMCID PMC2817244
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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