Change in body mass can overrule the effects of maternal testosterone on primary offspring sex ratio of first eggs in homing pigeons

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 490-500

  Goerlich, V C ^a   Dijkstra, C ^a   Boonekamp, J J ^a   Groothuis, T G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

BIRD; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; EGG; GLUCOSE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL EFFECT; SEX RATIO; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; OVIPOSITION; SEX RATIO; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 77952014126     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651315     Document Type: Article

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