Allometric deviations of plasma carotenoids in raptors
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GUILLERMO BLANCO,* LUIS M. BAUTISTA, D AMASO HORNERO-M ENDEZ, SERGIO A. LAMBERTUCCI, GUILLERMO WIEMEYER, JOS E A. SANCHEZ-ZAPATA, FERNANDO HIRALDO & JOS E A. DON AZAR Department of Evolutionary Ecology, National Museum of Natural History (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Food Phytochemistry Department, Instituto de la Grasa (CSIC), Seville, Spain Laboratorio Ecotono-INIBIOMA (CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue), Bariloche, Argentina Jard ın Zool ogico de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina The Peregrine Fund, Boise, ID, USA Department of Applied Biology, University Miguel Hern andez, Orihuela, Spain Department of Conservation Biology, Estaci on Biol ogica de Do~ nana (CSIC), Seville, Spain
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