Incubation reduces microbial growth on eggshells and the opportunity for trans-shell infection

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 532-537

  Cook, Mark I ^a,d   Beissinger, Steven R ^a   Toranzos, Gary A ^b   Arendt, Wayne J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^d SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Egg laying; Egg viability; Eggs; Hatching asynchrony; Incubation; Life history; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

EGGSHELL; GROWTH RATE; INCUBATION; INFECTIVITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; PUERTO RICO; WORLD;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; GALLIFORMES; MARGAROPS FUSCATUS; MIMIDAE;

EID: 18444396926     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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