Long-term fitness consequences of high yolk androgen levels: Sons pay the costs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 884-894

  Ruuskanen, Suvi ^a   Doligez, Blandine ^b,c,d,e   Pitala, Natalia ^f,g   Gustafsson, Lars ^h   Laaksonen, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^h UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bird; Hormones; Maternal effects; Parent offspring conflict; Sexual conflict; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BREEDING POPULATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE COST; TESTOSTERONE; WILD POPULATION;

AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 84864017339     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01994.x     Document Type: Article

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