[EN]: Most of our understanding of the function of colored traits displayed by birds and the mechanisms that produce or maintain them comes from studies on adults. However, colored traits are often displayed by nestlings from a young age, and these traits may influence parent-offspring interactions or sibling competition. The mechanisms that may mediate the expression of those traits during growth are still fairly unknown in raptors. In this study, we examined a possible mediating effect of corticosterone levels on the expression of carotenoid-pigmented traits in nestlings of Common Buzzards (Buteo buteo), specifically the yellow-orange coloration of their cere and legs. We assayed corticosterone levels deposited in feathers, which can prov...
Carotenoid-based skin colorations vary seasonally in many bird species and are thought to be honest ...
Colorful ornaments in birds are often sexually selected signals of quality, and variation in ornamen...
Animal coloration often serves as a signal to others that may communicate traits about the individua...
The adrenocortical stress response may divert energy away from sexual ornamentation, such that ornam...
The evolution and maintenance of conspicuous animal traits and communication signals have long fasci...
[IN] The outcome of social and sexual competition in animals is typically mediated through the expre...
Stressful situations during development can shape the phenotype for life by provoking a trade-off be...
Trade-offs between the benefits of current reproduction and the costs to future reproduction and sur...
Carotenoids are pigments synthesised by autotrophic organisms. For nestlings of raptorial species, w...
Carotenoids are colored pigments forming the basis of many avian social traits. Before their utiliza...
BACKGROUND:Animals use carotenoid-pigments for coloration, as antioxidants and as enhancers of the i...
Carotenoids are pigments synthesised by autotrophic organisms. For nestlings of raptorial species, w...
Carotenoid-based traits or ornaments, such as yellow-red integuments (feathers, beaks, legs or eye-r...
Carotenoids are pigments synthesised by autotrophic organisms. For nestlings of raptorial species, w...
Carotenoids are integument pigments that often reflect foraging efficiency, disease resistance and b...
Carotenoid-based skin colorations vary seasonally in many bird species and are thought to be honest ...
Colorful ornaments in birds are often sexually selected signals of quality, and variation in ornamen...
Animal coloration often serves as a signal to others that may communicate traits about the individua...
The adrenocortical stress response may divert energy away from sexual ornamentation, such that ornam...
The evolution and maintenance of conspicuous animal traits and communication signals have long fasci...
[IN] The outcome of social and sexual competition in animals is typically mediated through the expre...
Stressful situations during development can shape the phenotype for life by provoking a trade-off be...
Trade-offs between the benefits of current reproduction and the costs to future reproduction and sur...
Carotenoids are pigments synthesised by autotrophic organisms. For nestlings of raptorial species, w...
Carotenoids are colored pigments forming the basis of many avian social traits. Before their utiliza...
BACKGROUND:Animals use carotenoid-pigments for coloration, as antioxidants and as enhancers of the i...
Carotenoids are pigments synthesised by autotrophic organisms. For nestlings of raptorial species, w...
Carotenoid-based traits or ornaments, such as yellow-red integuments (feathers, beaks, legs or eye-r...
Carotenoids are pigments synthesised by autotrophic organisms. For nestlings of raptorial species, w...
Carotenoids are integument pigments that often reflect foraging efficiency, disease resistance and b...
Carotenoid-based skin colorations vary seasonally in many bird species and are thought to be honest ...
Colorful ornaments in birds are often sexually selected signals of quality, and variation in ornamen...
Animal coloration often serves as a signal to others that may communicate traits about the individua...