DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1414. Egg colour matching in an African cuckoo, as revealed by ultraviolet-visible reflectance spectrophotometry

Egg colour matching in an African cuckoo, as revealed by ultraviolet-visible reflectance spectrophotometry

10.1098/rspb.2000.1414

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Cherry, M. I., & Bennett, T. D. (2001). Egg colour matching in an African cuckoo, as revealed by ultraviolet-visible reflectance spectrophotometry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 268(1467), 565â571.

Authors 2

Michael I. Cherry (first)
T. D. Bennett (additional)

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Marchetti K Nakamura H & Gibbs H L 1998 Host-race formation in the common cuckoo Science 282 471^472 (10.1126/science.282.5388.471)
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Stokke B G Moksnes A RÖskaft E Rudolfsen G & Honza M 1999 Rejection of arti¢cial cuckoo eggs in relation to variation in egg appearance among reed warblers Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266 1483^1488 (10.1098/rspb.1999.0804)
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