Prolactin and the Incidence of Brood Patch Formation and Incubation Behaviour of the Two Sexes in Certain Birds with Special Reference to Phalaropes
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1476-4687
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Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] In the phalaropes (a sub-family of throe species only, two holarctic, one Wilson's (Steganopus tricolor), nearctic) only males incubate and only they form brood patches. Johns and Pfeiffer2 showed experimentally that the hor monal stimuli for brood patch formation in two species of phalaropes (one ...
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