Specific Appetite for Carotenoids in a Colorful Bird

BACKGROUND: Since carotenoids have physiological functions necessary for maintaining health, individuals should be selected to actively seek and develop a specific appetite for these compounds. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Great tits Parus major in a diet choice experiment, both in captivity and...

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Autores principales: Senar, Juan Carlos, Møller, Anders Pape, Ruiz, Iker, Negro, Juan José, Broggi, Juli, Hohtola, Esa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20502717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010716
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author Senar, Juan Carlos
Møller, Anders Pape
Ruiz, Iker
Negro, Juan José
Broggi, Juli
Hohtola, Esa
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Negro, Juan José
Broggi, Juli
Hohtola, Esa
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description BACKGROUND: Since carotenoids have physiological functions necessary for maintaining health, individuals should be selected to actively seek and develop a specific appetite for these compounds. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Great tits Parus major in a diet choice experiment, both in captivity and the field, preferred carotenoid-enriched diets to control diets. The food items did not differ in any other aspects measured besides carotenoid content. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Specific appetite for carotenoids is here demonstrated for the first time, placing these compounds on a par with essential nutrients as sodium or calcium.
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spelling pubmed-28732992010-05-25 Specific Appetite for Carotenoids in a Colorful Bird Senar, Juan Carlos Møller, Anders Pape Ruiz, Iker Negro, Juan José Broggi, Juli Hohtola, Esa PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Since carotenoids have physiological functions necessary for maintaining health, individuals should be selected to actively seek and develop a specific appetite for these compounds. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Great tits Parus major in a diet choice experiment, both in captivity and the field, preferred carotenoid-enriched diets to control diets. The food items did not differ in any other aspects measured besides carotenoid content. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Specific appetite for carotenoids is here demonstrated for the first time, placing these compounds on a par with essential nutrients as sodium or calcium. Public Library of Science 2010-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2873299/ /pubmed/20502717 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010716 Text en Senar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010716
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