Sexual selection and tail streamers in the barn swallow
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A. P. MÖller1*, A. Barbosa1, J. J. Cuervo2, F. de Lope3, S. Merino1 and N. Saino4 1Laboratoire d'Ecologie, CNRSURA 258, Universitë Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat. A, Septie© me ëtage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France 2Estaciön Biolögica de Do·ana, Pabellön del Perü, Avenida Mar|̈a Luisa s/n, E-41013 Sevilla, Spain 3Departamento de Ciencias Morfologicas y Biologia Celular y Animal, Universidad de Extremadura, E06071 Badajoz, Spain 4Dipartimento di Biologia, Sez. Zoologia Sc. Nat., Universita© degli Studi di Milano,Via Celoria 26, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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