Bacterial loads on eggshells of the pied flycatcher : Environmental and maternal factors

Condor

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 200-208

  Ruiz de Castaneda R ^a   Vela, A I ^b   Lobato, E ^a,c   Briones, V ^b   Moreno, J ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Eggshell bacterial loads; Ficedula hypoleuca; Hatching success; Incubation; Pied flycatcher; Temperature; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 79957744576     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2011.100035     Document Type: Article

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