Melanin-based colorations signal strategies to cope with poor and rich environments

By A. Roulin, Julien Gasparini, Pierre Bize, Mathias Ritschard, H. Richner. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2008

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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