ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] In the phalaropes (a sub-family of throe species only, two holarctic, one Wilson's (Steganopus tricolor), nearctic) only males incubate and only they form brood patches. Johns and Pfeiffer2 showed experimentally that the hor monal stimuli for brood patch formation in two species of phalaropes (one ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/208197a0
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