Carotenoid-based nestling colouration and parental favouritism in the great tit

Oecologia

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 477-482

  Tschirren, Barbara ^a   Fitze, Patrick S ^b   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Begging; Feeding behaviour; Food provisioning; Parent offspring interaction; Signalling

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; CAROTENOID; COLOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NESTING; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SONGBIRD; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CAROTENOIDS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PIGMENTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWITZERLAND;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 17844370822     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1812-z     Document Type: Article

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