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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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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 |