Carotenoid supplementation positively affects the expression of a non-visual sexual signal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  van Hout, Alain J M ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; TESTOSTERONE; XANTHOPHYLL; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL SELECTION; STARLING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; MALE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STARLINGS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79551508555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016326     Document Type: Article

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