Early fasting is long lasting: Differences in early nutritional conditions reappear under stressful conditions in adult female zebra finches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Krause, E Tobias ^a   Honarmand, Mariam ^a   Wetzel, Jennifer ^a   Naguib, Marc ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET RESTRICTION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINCH; FLEDGLING; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; METABOLIC RATE; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REST; SEXUAL MATURITY; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FINCHES; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 63449142290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005015     Document Type: Article

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