Nestling erythrocyte resistance to oxidative stress predicts fledging success but not local recruitment in a wild bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Losdat, Sylvain ^a,b   Helfenstein, Fabrice ^b,c   Blount, Jonathan D ^d   Marri, Viviana ^b   Maronde, Lea ^b   Richner, Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early life conditions; Fledging success; Local recruitment; Oxidative stress; Parus major

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FITNESS; FLEDGING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTLING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

MALONALDEHYDE;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWITZERLAND;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SONGBIRDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84872047049     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0888     Document Type: Article

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