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Plumage quality mediates a life-history trade-off in a migratory bird

BACKGROUND: Moult is one of the most costly activities in the annual cycle of birds and most avian species separate moult from other energy-demanding activities, such as migration. To this end, young birds tend to undergo the first post-juvenile moult before the onset of migration, but in some speci...

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Autores principales: Podlaszczuk, Patrycja, Kamiński, Maciej, Włodarczyk, Radosław, Kaczmarek, Krzysztof, Janiszewski, Tomasz, Minias, Piotr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5057445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27766111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0179-4