Getting a head start: Diet, sub-adult growth, and associative learning in a seed-eating passerine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Bonaparte, Kristina M ^a   Riffle Yokoi, Christina ^a   Burley, Nancy Tyler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GROWTH RATE; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; SEED EATING PASSERINE; SONGBIRD; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FINCH; HEAD; LEARNING; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; REWARD;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY SIZE; DIET; DIETARY PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS, DIETARY; FEMALE; FINCHES; HEAD; LEARNING; MALE; PLANT PROTEINS; REWARD; SEEDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052885393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023775     Document Type: Article

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