Female incubation attendance and nest vigilance reflect social signaling capacity: a field experiment

M Plaza, A Cantarero, JJ Cuervo, J Moreno - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
Due to the reduced conspicuousness of female signals, their evolution has traditionally been
interpreted as a by-product of sexual or natural selection in males. Recent studies have …

Parental feeding responses to experimental short-term partner removal in a species with male and female brood desertion

A Cantarero, M Plaza, J Moreno, M Griggio - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2019 - Springer
As parental care is costly, it can be expected that there will be a sexual conflict between
parents over the individual levels of parental investment because each parent has limited …

Heterozygosity, genetic similarity and extra‐pair paternity variation in two populations of rock sparrow Petronia petronia: a within and between populations …

A Corregidor‐Castro, M Griggio… - Journal of Avian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extra‐pair paternity (EPP) has been broadly reported in socially monogamous bird species
and it has been hypothesized that females engage in extra‐pair copulations to increase the …

Nestling sex ratio is associated with both male and female attractiveness in Rock Sparrows

A Cantarero, A Pilastro, M Griggio - Journal of avian biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
According to theory, in species in which male variance in reproductive success exceeds that
of the females, sons are more costly to produce; females mated with high quality males or …

Does egg carotenoid improve larval quality in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)?

TB Egeland, ES Egeland, JT Nordeide - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Females in mutually ornamented species are often less conspicuously ornamented than
their male conspecifics. It has been hypothesized that offspring quality may decrease if …