Low Cross-Sex Genetic Correlation in Carotenoid-Based Plumage Traits in the Blue Tit Nestlings (Cyanistes caeruleus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Drobniak, Szymon M ^a   Wiejaczka, Dariusz ^a   Arct, Aneta ^a   Dubiec, Anna ^b   Gustafsson, Lars ^c   Cichoń, Mariusz ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; FEATHER; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC TRAIT; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PIGMENTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAROTENOIDS; COLOR; FEATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84880769684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069786     Document Type: Article

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