Individual differences in the energy cost of self-maintenance (resting metabolic rate, RMR)
are substantial and the focus of an emerging research area. These differences may …

The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis was formulated 12 years ago in an attempt to
offer a proximate mechanism by which female choice of males could be explained by …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

In this paper we show how animal personality could explain some of the large inter‐
individual variation in resting metabolic rate (MR) and explore methodological and …

Avian eggs contain substantial amounts of maternal hormones and so provide an excellent
model to study hormone-mediated maternal effects. We review this new and rapidly evolving …

After the chicken, the House Sparrow is the most widely distributed bird species in the world,
occurring on all continents except Antarctica and on most human-inhabited islands …

1. Classic evolutionary models interpret ageing as a cost of reproduction, but evolutionary
research has thus far largely neglected the conceptual links between the evolution of ageing …

The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) of Folstad and Karter has inspired a
large number of studies that have tried to understand the causal basis of parasite–mediated …

The first comprehensive review of all aspects of the biology of moult, drawing information
from across the literature and in all birds, from penguins to passerines. Feathers are …

Evolutionary scientists propose that exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics are cues
of genes that increase offspring viability or reproductive success. In six studies the …