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Carotenoid metabolism strengthens the link between feather coloration and individual quality

Thirty years of research has made carotenoid coloration a textbook example of an honest signal of individual quality, but tests of this idea are surprisingly inconsistent. Here, to investigate sources of this heterogeneity, we perform meta-analyses of published studies on the relationship between ca...

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Autores principales: Weaver, Ryan J., Santos, Eduardo S. A., Tucker, Anna M., Wilson, Alan E., Hill, Geoffrey E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5758789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29311592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02649-z

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