Long-term effects of early nutrition and environmental matching on developmental and personality traits in zebra finches

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 128, Issue , 2017, Pages 103-115

  Krause, E Tobias ^a,b   Krüger, Oliver ^b   Schielzeth, Holger ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

behavioural strategies; developmental conditions; environmental stability; explorative behaviour; novel object test; pace of life hypothesis; phenotypic plasticity; quantitative genetics; shared environmental variation; thrifty phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SURVIVAL;

MERSIN [TURKEY]; TARSUS; TURKEY;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 85019246086     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.04.003     Document Type: Article

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