Resistance to oxidative stress shows low heritability and high common environmental variance in a wild bird

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1990-2000

  Losdat, S ^a,b   Helfenstein, F ^b,c   Blount, J D ^d   Richner, H ^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

Additive genetic variance; Common environment; Cross sex genetic correlation; Heritability; Oxidative stress; Parus major

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

MALONALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; NESTING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84906794472     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12454     Document Type: Article

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