Research was funded through projectsCGL2007-61395,CGL2010-15726,CGL2013-42451-P;PID2019-109685GB-100 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation。
Carotenoids are diet-based micronutrients important in health and coloration signaling.Related species with similar diets can differ in the kinds and levels of circulating carotenoids,which suggests specific physiolog...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[31301889];the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[lzujbky-2014-97,lzujbky-2021-sp03].
The behavioral video recordings of the gray-backed shrike Lanius tephronotus revealed that parent birds eat the feces produced by their nestlings.“Parental nutrition hypothesis”attributes the origin of this behavior...
When the pdf version of this paper first published,there were a number of errors in the reference list:accented letters were displaying incorrectly,leading to errors in author names throughout the list.This has now be...
This study was funded by the National Science Centre,Poland:NCN 2012/05/E/NZ8/02694 and NCN 2016/23/B/NZ8/03082;the Japan Society for Promotion of Science(JSPS):grant no.24-4578(to N.J.S.);24770028(to K.D.T.),23255004(to K.U.);by Rikkyo University:SFR 11-54(to N.J.S.).
Nestling rejection is a rare type of host defense against brood parasitism compared with egg rejection.Theoretically,host defenses at both egg and nestling stages could be based on similar underlying discrimination me...