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Egg-laying capacity is limited by carotenoid pigment availability in wild gulls Larus fuscus.

In birds, experimentally increased egg production can reduce maternal condition, parenting ability and survival, and the quality of the eggs themselves. Such costs probably reflect resource limitation, but the identity of the resource(s) in question remains unclear. Carotenoids are antioxidants and...

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Библиографические подробности
Главные авторы: Blount, Jonathan D, Houston, David C, Surai, Peter F, Møller, Anders Pape
Формат: Artigo
Язык:Inglês
Опубликовано: 2004
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Online-ссылка:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809998/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15101425
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