Female blue tits adjust parental effort to manipulated male UV attractiveness

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1551, 2004, Pages 1903-1908

  Limbourg, Tobias ^a   Mateman, A Christa ^a   Andersson, Staffan ^b   Lessells, C M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blue tit; Differential allocation; Differential sex allocation; Mate attractiveness; Parental effort; UV coloration

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; MATE ATTRACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; SEX ALLOCATION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLUE TIT; BONE GROWTH; COLOR; FEEDING; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PARENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARUS CAERULEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PARUS CAERULEUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SONGBIRDS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 6944253309     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2825     Document Type: Article

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