Carotenoid-based bill colour is an integrative signal of multiple parasite infection in blackbird

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 987-995

  Biard, Clotilde ^a,b   Saulnier, Nicolas ^a   Gaillard, Maria ^a   Moreau, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Carotenoid based signals; Hostparasite interactions; Parasite mediated sexual selection; Phthiraptera

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; CAROTENOID; COLOR MORPH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LOUSE; MALARIA; PLASMA; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; DECISION MAKING; HISTOLOGY; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTENOIDS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITIC DISEASES; PLASMODIUM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

AVES; CESTODA; COCCIDIA; PHTHIRAPTERA; PLASMODIUM SP.; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 78650186122     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0716-5     Document Type: Article

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