Cross-fostering reveals that among-brood differences in ornamental mouth coloration mostly reflect rearing conditions in nestling house sparrows

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 169-179

  Dugas, Matthew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Begging; Carotenoids; Passer domesticus; Visual signalling

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; COLOR; FOOD INTAKE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84859317658     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01852.x     Document Type: Article

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