Nestling diet, secondary sexual traits and fitness in the zebra finch

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1417, 1999, Pages 385-390

  Birkhead, T R ^a   Fletcher, F ^a   Pellatt, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catch up growth; Diet; Differential allocation; Fitness; Sexual selection; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

DIET; GROWTH RATE; NESTLING;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLOR; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033593879     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0649     Document Type: Article

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