Genetic and environmental components of variation in eumelanin and phaeomelanin sex-traits in the barn owl

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  2003

• Venue

  Heredity

• Publication date

  2003-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800260PMID 12714980
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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