Food-supplementing parents reduces their sons' song repertoire size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2855-2860

  Zanette, Liana ^a   Clinchy, Michael ^b   Sung, Ha Cheol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compensatory growth; Egg size; Intergenerational effects; Maternal effects; Offspring quality; Propagule size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOMASS; COMPENSATION; EGG SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; PROPAGULE; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EGG SIZE; FEEDING; FEMALE; GROWTH; MALE; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; MUSIC; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PARENT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPARROW;

MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650901525     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0450     Document Type: Article

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