Electrophoretic variants of egg white tr
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Adrianna P. Smyth; Bruce K. Orr; Robert C. Fleischer
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Article
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1993
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Springer
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English
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The frequency of intraspecific brood parasitism in two colonies of cliff swallows (Hirundo pyrrhonota) nesting in the eastern Sierra Nevada in California was assessed through an electrophoretic analysis of egg white (albumin) proteins. Albumin proteins are maternally derived and are presumed to dire