Sex, drugs, and mating role: testosterone-induced phenotype-switching in Galapagos marine iguanas
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Martin Wikelski, Silke S. Steiger, Bernhard Gall, and Karin N. Nelson Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall 303, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology, Von der Tannstrasse 7 D-82346 Andechs, Germany, Föhrenweg 1, D-86926 Greifenberg, Germany, Department of Animal Biology, 515 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2004