Opposite effects of early-life competition and developmental telomere attrition on cognitive biases in juvenile European starlings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Emmerson, Michael ^a   Ergün, Gökçe ^a   Monaghan, Pat ^b   Nettle, Daniel ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BROOD SIZE; CELL AGING; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL TELOMERE ATTRITION; EARLY LIFE COMPETITION; FEMALE; GENETIC FAMILY; GENETIC PARAMETERS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MOOD; MORBIDITY; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIMISM; OPTIMISTIC MOOD; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARAMETERS; PESSIMISTIC MOOD; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; REWARD; SOMATIC STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STURNUS VULGARIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PASSERIFORMES; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; PASSERIFORMES; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84942055898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132602     Document Type: Article

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