Habitat and year-to-year variation in haemoglobin concentration in nestling blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 572-577

  Bańbura, Jerzy ^a   Bańbura, Mirosława ^a   Kaliński, Adam ^a   Skwarska, Joanna ^a   Słomczyński, Robert ^a   Wawrzyniak, Jarosław ^a   Zieliński, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Altricial bird; Cyanistes caeruleus; Food abundance; Haemoglobin; Nestlings; Physiological condition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CATERPILLAR; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HATCHING; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGENY; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

EID: 34748815663     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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