Food supplementation affects egg albumen content and body size asymmetry among yellow-legged gull siblings

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1813-1821

  Saino, Nicola ^a,d   Romano, Maria ^a   Rubolini, Diego ^a   Caprioli, Manuela ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b   Fasola, Mauro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Biologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Albumen mass; Brood reduction; Egg mass; Food provisioning; Hatching order; Laying order; Maternal effects; Offspring size; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BODY SIZE; BROOD SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HATCHING; MATERNAL EFFECT; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD; SELECTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SIBLING; WILD POPULATION;

AVES; LARUS MICHAHELLIS;

EID: 77957983643     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0993-1     Document Type: Article

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