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The upright nesting behaviours on a vertical shore-wall in the three-spined stickleback,Gasterosteus aculeatus (leiurus form)

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Mori, S. The upright nesting behaviours on a vertical shore-wall in the three-spined stickleback,Gasterosteus aculeatus (leiurus form). J. Ethol. 6, 59–62 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02348863

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