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Egg Speckling Patterns Do Not Advertise Offspring Quality or Influence Male Provisioning in Great Tits
Many passerine birds lay white eggs with reddish brown speckles produced by protoporphyrin pigment. However, the function of these spots is contested. Recently, the sexually selected eggshell coloration (SSEC) hypothesis proposed that eggshell color is a sexually selected signal through which a fema...
Autores principales: | Stoddard, Mary Caswell, Fayet, Annette L., Kilner, Rebecca M., Hinde, Camilla A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3398933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22815730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040211 |
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