Pre-breeding energy requirements: Thyroid hormone, metabolism and the timing of reproduction in house sparrows Passer domesticus

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 298-306

  Chastel, Olivier ^a   Lacroix, André ^a   Kersten, Marcel ^a,b  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; HORMONE; MATING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141572365     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.02528.x     Document Type: Article

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