Phenotypic plasticity in response to breeding density in tree swallows: An adaptive maternal effect?

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 729-736

  Bentz, Alexandra B ^a   Navara, Kristen J ^b   Siefferman, Lynn ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing rate; Competition; Prenatal hormone; Tachycineta bicolor; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREATHING RATE; BREEDING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

BREATHING RATE; COMPETITION; PRENATAL HORMONE; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CLUTCH SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWALLOWS; TERRITORIALITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84885344092     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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