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Probing the Limits of Egg Recognition Using Egg Rejection Experiments Along Phenotypic Gradients
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Characterization of microsatellites in capercaillie Tetrao urogallus (AVES)
G Segelbacher1, R J Paxton, G Steinbrück
1Wildlife Research and Management Unit, Faculty of Forest Sciences, TU, Munich, Am Hochanger 13, D-85354 Freising, Germany. gernot.segelbacher@uni-tuebingen.de
Molecular Ecology
|November 25, 2000
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