Oxidative cost of reproduction is sex specific and correlated with reproductive effort in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Florida scrub jay

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 499-503

  Heiss, Rebecca S ^a   Schoech, Stephan J ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN;

CORRELATION; DECISION MAKING; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; MALE; PROTEIN CARBONYLATION; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES;

EID: 84865484430     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666840     Document Type: Article

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