The ornament-condition relationship varies with parasite abundance at population level in a female bird

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 897-902

  Vergara, Pablo ^a   Martínez Padilla, Jesús ^a,b   Redpath, Stephen M ^a   Mougeot, Francois ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental conditions; Lagopus lagopus scoticus; Secondary sexual traits; Sexual selection; Trichostrongylus tenuis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEMALE; GAMEBIRD; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; NEMATODE; ORNAMENTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRICHOSTRONGYLOSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

AVES; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; TETRAONIDAE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS;

EID: 80054808619     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0833-9     Document Type: Article

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