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Accurately quantifying the shape of birds’ eggs

Describing the range of avian egg shapes quantitatively has long been recognized as difficult. A variety of approaches has been adopted, some of which aim to capture the shape accurately and some to provide intelligible indices of shape. The objectives here are to show that a (four‐parameter) method...

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Autores principales: Biggins, John D., Thompson, Jamie E., Birkhead, Tim R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6202712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4412