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Integument coloration signals reproductive success, heterozygosity, and antioxidant levels in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes.
Die Naturwissenschaften - 1 Sept 2011
Leclaire Sarah, White Joël, Arnoux Emilie, Faivre Bruno, Vetter Nathanaël, Hatch Scott A, Danchin Etienne
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Carotenoid pigments are important for immunity and as antioxidants, and carotenoid-based colors are believed to provide honest signals of individual quality. Other colorless but more efficient antioxidants such as vitamins A and E may protect carotenoids from bleaching. Carotenoid-based colors have thus recently been suggested to reflect the concentration of such colorless antioxidants, but this has rarely been...
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