Starting with a handicap: effects of asynchronous hatching on growth rate, oxidative stress and telomere dynamics in free-living great tits

Oecologia

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 999-1010

  Stier, Antoine ^a   Massemin, Sylvie ^b,c   Zahn, Sandrine ^b,c   Tissier, Mathilde L ^b,c   Criscuolo, François ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Intra brood competition; Oxidative damage; Self maintenance; Testosterone; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BLOOD; BODY SIZE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; NESTLING; OXIDATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SIBLING; TESTOSTERONE; TRADE-OFF;

AVES;

ANTIOXIDANT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; NESTING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PASSERIFORMES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TELOMERE; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84946498478     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3429-9     Document Type: Article

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