Variation in Circulating Testosterone during Mating Predicts Reproductive Success in a Wild Songbird
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1 Abteilung für Verhaltensneurobiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie, Seewiesen, Germany, 2 Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 3 Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, 4 Independent Researcher, Borken, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2016