Amino Acid Composition of the Plumage of the White-Crowned Sparrow
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 84 (4) , 435-438
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1367449
Abstract
To provide baseline data for estimating the dietary amino acid requirements of molting birds, we measured the amino acid composition, nitrogen and sulfur conten...This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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