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Early nutritional stress impairs development of a song-control brain region in both male and female juvenile song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) at the onset of song learning

Birdsong is a sexually selected trait and is often viewed as an indicator of male quality. The developmental stress hypothesis proposes a model by which song could be an indicator; the time during early development, when birds learn complex songs and/or local variants of song, is of rapid developmen...

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Main Authors: MacDonald, Ian F, Kempster, Bethany, Zanette, Liana, MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634898/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16959649
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3547
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