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Carotenoid Supplementation Positively Affects the Expression of a Non-Visual Sexual Signal

Carotenoids are a class of pigments which are widely used by animals for the expression of yellow-to-red colour signals, such as bill or plumage colour. Since they also have been shown to promote immunocompetence and to function as antioxidants, many studies have investigated a potential allocation...

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Autores principales: Van Hout, Alain J.-M., Eens, Marcel, Pinxten, Rianne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3026812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21283591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016326