Better red than dead: Carotenoid-based mouth coloration reveals infection in barn swallow nestlings

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1438, 2000, Pages 57-61

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Ninni, Paola ^b   Calza, Stefano ^a   Martinelli, Roberta ^a   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Gape colour; Hirundo rustica; Immunity; Parental care; Signalling

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CAROTENOID;

CONDITION FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; OVIS ARIES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0034614486     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0966     Document Type: Article

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