Optimizing the trade-off between offspring number and quality in unpredictable environments: Testing the role of differential androgen transfer to collared flycatcher eggs

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 813-822

  Rice, Amber M ^a,b   Vallin, Niclas ^a   Kulma, Katarzyna ^a   Arntsen, Hanna ^a   Husby, Arild ^a   Tobler, Michael ^c   Qvarnström, Anna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androstenedione; Begging; Brood reduction hypothesis; Collared flycatcher; Laying order; Maternal effects; Parent offspring conflict; Sex specific effects; Sibling competition; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CLUTCH SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPETITOR SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FLEDGLING; FLYCATCHER; HATCHING; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE TRANSPORT; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIBLING;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIRTH ORDER; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; SIBLINGS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84878250954     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.03.019     Document Type: Article

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