Egg shape in the Common Guillemot Uria aalge and Brunnich’s Guillemot U. lomvia: not a rolling matter?
The adaptive significance of avian egg shape is poorly understood, and has been studied only in those species producing pyriform (pear-shaped, or pointed) eggs: waders and guillemots (murres) Uria spp., albeit to a limited extent. In the latter, it is widely believed that the pyriform shape has evol...
Published in: | Journal of Ornithology |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Springer Verlag (Germany)
2017
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Online Access: | https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112880/ https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112880/1/TRB%20et%20all%20G%20eggs%202.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-017-1437-8 |