Canalization of development reduces the utility of traits as fitness biomarkers: feather fault bars in nestling birds

Functional Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 719-727

  Boonekamp, Jelle J ^a   Dijkstra, Rutger ^a   Dijkstra, Cor ^a   Verhulst, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

differential resource allocation; growth; perturbation; plasticity; robustness

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; BROOD SIZE; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEATHER; FITNESS; GROWTH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL; WING;

AVES;

EID: 84991698550     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12765     Document Type: Article

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