An immunological cost of begging in house sparrow nestlings

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1690, 2010, Pages 2083-2088

  Moreno Rueda, Gregorio ^a,b  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Growth costs; Honest signalling; Parent offspring conflict; Sibling competition; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTIGEN; BEGGING BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NESTLING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SIGNALING; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 77955350820     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0109     Document Type: Article

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