Male-biased brood sex ratio depresses average phenotypic quality of barn swallow nestlings under experimentally harsh conditions

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 441-453

  Saino, Nicola ^a   De Ayala, Rosa Mary ^b,c   Martinelli, Roberta ^a   Boncoraglio, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body size; Brood size; Growth; Immunity; Sex; Sex allocation; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BROOD SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GROWTH; IMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SWALLOW (BIRD);

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX RATIO; SWALLOWS;

HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

EID: 43049142205     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-0971-8     Document Type: Article

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