Seasonal sex allocation by Common Grackles? Revisiting a foundational study

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3190-3196

  Maddox, J Dylan ^a   Weatherhead, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive maternal strategy; Common Grackle; Nestling starvation; Quiscalus quiscula; Renesting; Sex allocation; Sexual size dimorphism; Study replication

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BREEDING SEASON; DNA; HATCHING; MATERNAL CARE; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEASONALITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STARVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SEX RATIO; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ANIMALS; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS;

QUISCALUS; QUISCALUS QUISCULA;

EID: 72449177960     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2180.1     Document Type: Article

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