Fitness Costs of Maternal Ornaments and Prenatal Corticosterone Manifest as Reduced Offspring Survival and Sexual Ornament Expression
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DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2022.801834
Abstract: Colorful traits (i.e., ornaments) that signal quality have well-established relationships with individual condition and physiology. Furthermore, ornaments expressed in females may have indirect fitness effects in offspring via the prenatal physiology associated with, and social… read more here.
Keywords: fitness costs; offspring survival; physiology; prenatal corticosterone ... See more keywords