Testing the developmental stress hypothesis in canaries: Consequences of nutritional stress on adult song phenotype and mate attractiveness

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1767-1777

  Müller, Wendt ^a   Vergauwen, Jonas ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bird song; Developmental stress; Growth; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BROOD SIZE; COMPENSATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLEDGING; FOOD QUALITY; HERITABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE ATTRACTION; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; SONG; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VULNERABILITY;

AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77957985392     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0989-x     Document Type: Article

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