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Ecological, physiological, and morphological correlates of blood hemoglobin concentration in a migratory shorebird.
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ - 1 Jan 2000
Minias Piotr, Włodarczyk Radosław, Piasecka Anna, Kaczmarek Krzysztof, Janiszewski Tomasz
Abstract excerpt
The information on the phenotypic and ecological factors that influence hemoglobin concentration in free-living birds is scarce. In order to recognize sources of variation in hemoglobin levels of migratory shorebirds, we measured whole-blood hemoglobin concentration in 553 juvenile and 166 adult common snipe Gallinago gallinago during autumn migration through central Poland. Among the intrinsic determinants of...
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