Bite performance and morphology in a population of Darwin’s finches: implications for the evolution of beak shape

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  • A. HERREL
  • A. P. HENDRY
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* Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium, ‡ Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01003, USA, § Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 01003 USA, and ¶ Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke St. W., Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2K6

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تاریخ انتشار 2005