Dietary carotenoid supplementation facilitates egg laying in a wild passerine
Abstract During egg laying, females face a trade‐off between self‐maintenance and investment into current reproduction, since providing eggs with resources is energetically demanding, in particular if females lay one egg per day. However, the costs of egg laying not only relate to energetic requirem...
Main Authors: | Jorge García‐Campa, Wendt Müller, Sonia González‐Braojos, Emilio García‐Juárez, Judith Morales |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020-06-01
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Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6250 |
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