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Cross-fostering eggs reveals that female collared flycatchers adjust clutch sex ratios according to parental ability to invest in offspring

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Mothers adjust offspring sex to match the quality of the rearing environment

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Sex-biased terminal investment in offspring induced by maternal immune challenge in the house wren (Troglodytes aedon)

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Adaptive Sex Allocation in Relation to Hatching Synchrony and Offspring Quality in House Wrens

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Experimentally increased egg production constrains future reproduction of female house wrens

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Importance of breeding season and maternal investment in studies of sex-ratio adjustment: a case study using tree swallows

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Manipulating developmental stress reveals sex-specific effects of egg size on offspring phenotype

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The Design of Artificial Nestboxes for the Study of Secondary Hole-Nesting Birds: A Review of Methodological Inconsistencies and Potential Biases

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Males are sensitive — sex-dependent effect of rearing conditions on nestling growth

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Egg size and offspring quality: a meta-analysis in birds

(2010) Miloš Krist   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Sexual dimorphism of egg size in the European Blackbird Turdus merula

(2010) Rafał Martyka et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Sex allocation in response to local resource competition over breeding territories

(2009) Mårten B. Hjernquist et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Within-clutch egg size asymmetry covaries with embryo sex in the yellow-legged gull Larus michahellis

(2009) Diego Rubolini et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Offspring sex varies with maternal investment ability: empirical demonstration based on cross-fostering

(2009) K. A. Robert et al.   Biology Letters

Individual quality, early-life conditions, and reproductive success in contrasted populations of large herbivores

(2009) Sandra Hamel et al.   ECOLOGY

Short- and long-term effects of egg size and feeding frequency on offspring quality in the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

(2009) Miloš Krist   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Extra-pair young in house wren broods are more likely to be male than female

(2009) L. S. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sex allocation in yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) depends on nutritional constraints on production of large last eggs

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Why Are Incubation Periods Longer in the Tropics? A Common‐Garden Experiment with House Wrens Reveals It Is All in the Egg

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Competitor density cues for habitat quality facilitating habitat selection and investment decisions

(2008) J. T. Forsman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Sex-specific costs of hatching last: an experimental study on herring gulls (Larus argentatus)

(2008) Maria I. Bogdanova et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Individual variation in reproductive costs of reproduction: high-quality females always do better

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Evolution of sex-biased maternal effects in birds. IV. Intra-ovarian growth dynamics can link sex determination and sex-specific acquisition of resources

(2008) A. V. BADYAEV et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Female house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) increase the size, but not immunocompetence, of their offspring through extra-pair mating

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Heterogeneity in individual quality overrides costs of reproduction in female reindeer

(2008) Robert B. Weladji et al.   OECOLOGIA

Age-specific reproduction in a long-lived species: the combined effects of senescence and individual quality

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Meiotic drive and sex determination: molecular and cytological mechanisms of sex ratio adjustment in birds

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