Maternal effects in the highly communal sociable weaver may exacerbate brood reduction and prepare offspring for a competitive social environment

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Yolk carotenoids have sex-dependent effects on redox status and influence the resolution of growth trade-offs in yellow-legged gull chicks

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Antioxidant Defenses Predict Long-Term Survival in a Passerine Bird

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Yolk androstenedione, but not testosterone, predicts offspring fate and reflects parental quality

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From bivalves to birds: oxidative stress and longevity

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Egg size and yolk steroids vary across the laying order in cockatiel clutches: A strategy for reinforcing brood hierarchies?

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Yolk androgen deposition in rockhopper penguins, a species with reversed hatching asynchrony

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Egg-yolk androgen and carotenoid deposition as a function of maternal social environment in barn swallows Hirundo rustica

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Embryonic modulation of maternal steroids in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

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Corticosterone, testosterone and life-history strategies of birds

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Maternal Effects Mediated by Antioxidants and the Evolution of Carotenoid‐Based Signals in Birds

(2009) Clotilde Biard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Egg composition in relation to social environment and maternal physiological condition in the collared flycatcher

(2009) Rita Hargitai et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Long-lasting consequences of elevated yolk testosterone levels on female reproduction

(2009) Wendt Müller et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Short- and long-term consequences of prenatal testosterone for immune function: an experimental study in the zebra finch

(2009) Michael Tobler et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Does oxidative stress mediate the trade-off between growth and self-maintenance in structured families?

(2009) Margaret E. Hall et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Yolk androgens and the development of avian immunity: an experiment in jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

(2009) M. I. Sandell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fine-scale life-history variation in sociable weavers in relation to colony size

(2008) Claire N. Spottiswoode   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Maternal yolk androgens in European starlings: affected by social environment or individual traits of the mother?

(2007) Corine Eising et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Hormone-mediated maternal effects in birds: mechanisms matter but what do we know of them?

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