Parental effort and response to nestling begging in the house sparrow: Repeatability, heritability and parent-offspring co-evolution

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1605-1612

  Dor, R ^a,b   Lotem, A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Genetic correlation; Heritability; Nestling begging; Parental investment; Parental response; Passer domesticus; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BROOD REARING; COEVOLUTION; FITNESS; FOOD PROVISIONING; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; NESTLING; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPARROW; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SPARROWS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 77954743915     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02023.x     Document Type: Article

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