Frequency of fault bars in feathers of birds and susceptibility to predation

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 334-345

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Erritzøe, Johannes ^b   Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

^b Taps Old Rectory ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Developmental control; Feathers; Moult; Risk; Stress

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEATHER; MIGRATION; MOLT; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATION RISK; PREDICTION; RAPTOR;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES;

EID: 66149092742     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01204.x     Document Type: Article

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