More ornamented females produce higher-quality offspring in a socially monogamous bird: an experimental study in the great tit (Parus major)

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-14" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-14</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-14" target="_blank" >10.1186/1742-9994-10-14</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

More ornamented females produce higher-quality offspring in a socially monogamous bird: an experimental study in the great tit (Parus major)

Original language description

Introduction: Animals are often conspicuously colored and explanations range from aposematism and mimicry to sexual selection. Although sexual selection explains vivid coloration in males, functional significance of vivid coloration in females of socially monogamous species remains unclear. The hypothesis of mutual mate choice predicts that more ornamented females produce offspring of higher quality. We tested this prediction in the great tit (Parus major), a small, insectivorous, socially monogamous passerine. Results: In both females and males we quantified three ornaments that have been hypothesized to have signaling role in this species (size of black breast stripe, carotenoid chroma of yellow breast feathers, immaculateness of the white cheek). Weswapped broods between nests soon after hatching, thus separating genetic plus pre-hatching vs. post-hatching effects on offspring performance. Body mass of offspring at 14 days of age was positively related to the area of black breast s

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

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Zoology

ISSN

1742-9994

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

UT code for WoS article

000317282200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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