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Haste Makes Waste but Condition Matters: Molt Rate–Feather Quality Trade-Off in a Sedentary Songbird

BACKGROUND: The trade-off between current and residual reproductive values is central to life history theory, although the possible mechanisms underlying this trade-off are largely unknown. The ‘molt constraint’ hypothesis suggests that molt and plumage functionality are compromised by the preceding...

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Autores principales: Vágási, Csongor I., Pap, Péter L., Vincze, Orsolya, Benkő, Zoltán, Marton, Attila, Barta, Zoltán
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040651