Is sex-specific mass gain in Cory's shearwaters Calonectris diomedea related to begging and steroid hormone expression?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 793-800

  Quillfeldt, Petra ^a,c,d   Träger, Inga ^b   Griffiths, Kate ^c   Buchanan, Katherine L ^a   Masello, Juan F ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Glasgow ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural sex differences; Parent offspring communication; Procellariiformes; Signalling; Size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; CALLING BEHAVIOR; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SEX HORMONE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STEROID;

AVES; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 33847635747     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0310-1     Document Type: Article

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