Yolk carotenoids increase fledging success in great tit nestlings

Brood Reduction via Intra-clutch Variation in Testosterone - An Experimental Test in the Great Tit

(2013) Katarzyna Podlas et al.   PLoS One

Long-term fitness consequences of high yolk androgen levels: sons pay the costs

(2012) Suvi Ruuskanen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Nicola Saino et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Yolk androgens in great tit eggs are related to male attractiveness, breeding density and territory quality

(2011) Vladimír Remeš   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Egg yolk antioxidant deposition as a function of parental ornamentation, age, and environment in great tits Parus major

(2011) Vladimír Remeš et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Age, sex and beauty: methodological dependence of age- and sex-dichromatism in the great tit Parus major

(2010) SIMON R. EVANS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Maternally invested carotenoids compensate costly ectoparasitism in the hihi

(2009) J. G. Ewen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carotenoid-induced maternal effects interact with ectoparasite burden and brood size to shape the trade-off between growth and immunity in nestling great tits

(2008) A. Berthouly et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Carotenoids are minor antioxidants for birds

(2008) D. Costantini et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Maternal allocation strategies and differential effects of yolk carotenoids on the phenotype and viability of yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) chicks in relation to sex and laying order

(2008) M. ROMANO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Maternal transfer of antibodies in vertebrates: trans-generational effects on offspring immunity

(2008) D. Hasselquist et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES