Haste makes waste: Accelerated molt adversely affects the expression of melanin-based and depigmented plumage ornaments in house sparrows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Vágási, Csongor I ^a,b   Pap, Péter L ^a,b   Barta, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPARROW; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEATHER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

ANIMALS; COLOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEATHERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MELANINS; MOLTING; PIGMENTATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPARROWS;

EID: 78649978913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014215     Document Type: Article

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