Birds are a particularly good group with which to examine the importance of maternal effects, as parental contributions can be relatively easily quantified compared with other groups …
JM Anderies, M Katti, E Shochat - Journal of theoretical biology, 2007 - Elsevier
This article explores factors that shape population structure in novel environments that have received scant theoretical attention: cities. Urban bird populations exhibit higher densities …
J Rutkowska, M Cichoń, M Puerta, D Gil - Hormones and behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
Although factors influencing androgen deposition in the avian egg and its effects on nestling fitness are recently receiving considerable attention, little is known about the potential costs …
J Rutkowska, M Cichoń - Animal Behaviour, 2006 - Elsevier
Female birds have repeatedly been reported to adjust the primary sex ratio of their offspring to environmental, social and physiological cues. However, the mechanism behind sex …
R Kleinberger, M Vemuri, J Sands, H Sareen… - Proceedings of the Ninth …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
For some precocial bird species, vocal interactions occur pre-hatching between parent and embryo within the egg. Such prenatal sensory experiences may affect development and …
The zebra finch is the model species for the study of the evolution of birdsong, female song preferences, song learning and the neural processes underlying song learning and …
The present study was carried out to determine the sex of the fertilized white layer eggs with using morphological measurements. A total of 300 Super Nick White Layer (54 wks of age) …
Hatching asynchrony is widespread in birds laying clutches containing multiple eggs, yet is seemingly paradoxical as the age and size hierarchies result in asymmetric sibling …
Although the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, has been a very important model system for the study of intrafamilial conflict and parental strategies, a detailed understanding of the …