Females of carotenoid-supplemented males are more faithful and produce higher quality offspring

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1165-1172

  Helfenstein, Fabrice ^a   Losdat, Sylvain ^a   Saladin, Verena ^a   Richner, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Differential allocation hypothesis; Extrapair paternity; Great tit; Parus major

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FREE RADICAL; OPTIMIZATION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PATERNITY; PIGMENT; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 56549084805     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn091     Document Type: Article

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