Carotenoids and egg quality in the lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus: A supplemental feeding study of maternal effects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1486, 2002, Pages 29-36

  Blount, Jonathan D ^a   Surai, Peter F ^a   Nager, Ruedi G ^a   Houston, David C ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Trewby, Michael L ^a   Kennedy, Malcolm W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Egg quality; Maternal effects; Passive immunity

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

CAROTENOID; EGG; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; NUTRITION; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EGG; EGG LAYING; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; FITNESS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTEGUMENT; LARUS FUSCUS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LARUS; LARUS FUSCUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53149099347     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1840     Document Type: Article

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