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Flight Performance and Feather Quality: Paying the Price of Overlapping Moult and Breeding in a Tropical Highland Bird

A temporal separation of energetically costly life history events like reproduction and maintenance of the integumentary system is thought to be promoted by selection to avoid trade-offs and maximize fitness. It has therefore remained somewhat of a paradox that certain vertebrate species can undergo...

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Autores principales: Echeverry-Galvis, Maria Angela, Hau, Michaela
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/PMC3648541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061106