Living with the past: nutritional stress in juvenile males has immediate effects on their plumage ornaments and on adult attractiveness in zebra finches.
The environmental conditions individuals experience during early development are well known to have fundamental effects on a variety of fitness-relevant traits. Although it is evident that the earliest developmental stages have large effects on fitness, other developmental stages, such as the period...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1975674?pdf=render |