Ultraviolet signals in birds are special

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2003-01-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2002.2200PMID 12590772PMCID PMC1691211
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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