Gender and environmental sensitivity in nestling Collared Flycatchers

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1939-1948

  Sheldon, Ben C ^a,d   Merilä, Juha ^b,d   Lindgren, Gabriella ^c   Ellegren, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body size; CHD gene; Collared Flycatcher; Environmental sensitivity; Ficedula albicollis; Gender; Gender x environment interactions; Molecular sex identification; Partial cross fostering; Phenotypic plasticity; Sex specific fitness and mortality; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; NESTLING; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031717224     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1939:GAESIN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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