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Increased Endoparasite Infection in Late-Arriving Individuals of a Trans-Saharan Passerine Migrant Bird

Earlier migration in males than in females is the commonest pattern in migrating passerines and is positively related to size dimorphism and dichromatism. The early arrival of males is a costly trait that may confer reproductive advantages in terms of better territories and/or mates. Given the physi...

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Autores principales: López, Guillermo, Muñoz, Joaquín, Soriguer, Ramón, Figuerola, Jordi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3631203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23620731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061236