Are blue eggs a sexually selected signal of female collared flycatchers? A cross-fostering experiment

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  2007

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  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  2007-01-10

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1007/s00265-006-0315-9
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