The evolution of size of the uropygial gland: mutualistic feather mites and uropygial secretion reduce bacterial loads of eggshells and hatching failures of European birds

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  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2012-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02561.xPMID 22805098
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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