Maternal Effects in Relation to Helper Presence in the Cooperatively Breeding Sociable Weaver

Embryonic exposure to maternal testosterone influences age-specific mortality patterns in a captive passerine bird

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Hormonal regulation of offspring begging and mediation of parent–offspring conflict

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Load Lightening in Southern Lapwings: Group-Living Mothers Lay Smaller Eggs than Pair-Living Mothers

(2011) Eduardo S. A. Santos et al.   ETHOLOGY

Helpers at the nest compensate for reduced maternal investment in egg size in carrion crows

(2011) D. CANESTRARI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Elevated Plasma Corticosterone Decreases Yolk Testosterone and Progesterone in Chickens: Linking Maternal Stress and Hormone-Mediated Maternal Effects

(2011) Rie Henriksen et al.   PLoS One

Juvenile exposure to predator cues induces a larger egg size in fish

(2011) F. H. I. D. Segers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effect of helpers on the postfledging period in a cooperatively breeding bird, the sociable weaver

(2010) Rita Covas et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Immediate and delayed life history effects caused by food deprivation early in life in a short-lived lizard

(2010) M. MUGABO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptive modulation of behavioural profiles by social stress during early phases of life and adolescence

(2010) Norbert Sachser et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Female sticklebacks transfer information via eggs: effects of maternal experience with predators on offspring

(2010) E. R. Giesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do stress hormones suppress helper reproduction in the cooperatively breeding red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)?

(2009) A. L. Malueg et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Helpers and egg investment in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker: testing the concealed helper effects hypothesis

(2009) Walter D. Koenig et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Effects of parental larval diet on egg size and offspring traits in Drosophila

(2009) R. K. Vijendravarma et al.   Biology Letters

Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: from hymenopterans to humans

(2009) A. F Russell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Cooperative provisioning dynamics: fathers and unrelated helpers show similar responses to manipulations of begging

(2008) Paul G. McDonald et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Helpers in colonial cooperatively breeding sociable weavers Philetairus socius contribute to buffer the effects of adverse breeding conditions

(2008) Rita Covas et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Carotenoids are minor antioxidants for birds

(2008) D. Costantini et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

THE THERMAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEST OF THE SOCIABLE WEAVER PHILETAIRUS SOCIUS: WINTER OBSERVATIONS

(2008) Fred N. White et al.   IBIS

Carotenoid intake does not mediate a relationship between reactive oxygen species and bright colouration: experimental test in a lizard

(2008) M. Olsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Maternal investment tactics in superb fairy-wrens

(2007) A.F Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES