Does egg colouration signal female and egg quality in reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F13%3A10190409" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/13:10190409 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2012.744357" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2012.744357</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2012.744357" target="_blank" >10.1080/03949370.2012.744357</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does egg colouration signal female and egg quality in reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)?

Original language description

To explain the evolution of egg colouration in open cup nesting species, a number of functions have been suggested. Recent studies focus on the role of eggshell colour as a postmating sexually selected trait of females which manipulates male parental investment. A basic prediction of this hypothesis is that egg pigmentation reflects female quality. In this study we examine whether there is a relationship between eggshell colouration and either female quality or egg quality in reed warblers. This open cup nesting species has eggs that are heavily spotted with brownish marks on a bluish-green background. We used several parameters describing female and egg quality, and measured eggshell colouration at the blunt pole and the egg centre, deriving four colour variables from colour spectrometry. To determine egg quality parameters, the third egg of each clutch was sampled and analysed. To determine female quality, females were trapped shortly after egg laying, and several morphological and a

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LC06009" target="_blank" >LC06009: Centre for molecular ecology of vectors and pathogens</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

0394-9370

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

129-143

UT code for WoS article

000317742200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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