Haste makes waste but condition matters: Molt rate-feather quality trade-off in a sedentary songbird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Vágási, Csongor I ^a,b   Pap, Péter L ^a,b   Vincze, Orsolya ^b   Benko, Zoltán ^b   Marton, Attila ^b   Barta, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREEDING; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; FORELIMB; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SPARROW; TAIL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLTING; PHOTOPERIOD; SPARROWS; TAIL;

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERI;

EID: 84863761814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040651     Document Type: Article

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