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The colour of an avifauna: A quantitative analysis of the colour of Australian birds
Animal coloration is a poorly-understood aspect of phenotypic variability. Here I expand initial studies of the colour gamut of birds by providing the first quantitative description of the colour variation of an entire avifauna: Australian landbirds (555 species). The colour of Australian birds occu...
Autor principal: | Delhey, Kaspar |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683462/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18514 |
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