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Structural (UV) and carotenoid‐based plumage coloration – signals for parental investment?

Parental care increases parental fitness through improved offspring condition and survival but comes at a cost for the caretaker(s). To increase life‐time fitness, caring parents are, therefore, expected to adjust their reproductive investment to current environmental conditions and parental capacit...

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Autores principales: Lucass, Carsten, Iserbyt, Arne, Eens, Marcel, Müller, Wendt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2107