Parasite treatment affects maternal investment in sons

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5896, 2008, Pages 1681-1682

  Reed, T E ^a,b   Daunt, F ^b   Hall, M E ^c,e   Phillips, R A ^d   Wanless, S ^b   Cunningham, E J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MATERNAL CARE; PARASITISM; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; ASCARIDIDA INFECTIONS; ASCARIDOIDEA; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IVERMECTIN; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE;

PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 52249098270     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159466     Document Type: Article

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10. We thank M. Harris, M. Frederiksen, L. Kruuk, S. Reece, S. West, P. Monaghan, and A. Young for helpful discussion and A. Kiploks and M. Newell for invaluable field assistance. Thanks also to M. Melo, S. Preuss, and J. Pemberton (University of Edinburgh) and K. Griffiths and A. Adams (University of Glasgow) for help with molecular sexing; B. Craig and A. Meredith for advice on parasitology; and H.-P. Fagerholm, D. Gibson, and M. Blaxter for nematode identification. Special thanks to Scottish Natural Heritage for permission to work on the island and the Isle of May Bird Observatory for help maintaining the marked population of shags. This work was supported by a Principal's Studentship to T.E.R. from the University of Edinburgh, a fellowship to E.J.A.C. from the Royal Society, and a NERC CASE studentship to M.E.H. The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) funded the logger work.