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Plumage colour signals nutritional condition in the house finch
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- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 1994-10-22
- Volume
- 258
- Issue
- 1351
- Pages
- 47-52
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- OpenAlex
- W2016168579
- Cited by
- 381
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 9.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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