Costly steroids: Egg testosterone modulates nestling metabolic rate in the zebra finch

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 408-410

  Tobler, Michael ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^a   Nilsson, Johan F ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Maternal effects; Maternal hormones; Metabolism; Taeniopygia guttata; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BIOENERGETICS; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; NESTLING; PASSERINE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FINCH; GROWTH; HORMONE METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; ZYGOTE;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASAL METABOLISM; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; TESTOSTERONE; ZYGOTE;

EID: 34848919022     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0127     Document Type: Article

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