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Does the interaction between glucocorticoids and insulin-like growth factor 1 predict nestling fitness in a wild passerine?
General and comparative endocrinology - 1 Jan 2016
Lodjak Jaanis, Tilgar Vallo, Mägi Marko
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The crucial question in evolutionary ecology is to find out how physiological traits have coevolved so animals fit their stochastic environments. The plasticity of these different physiological mechanisms is largely mediated by hormones, like glucocorticoids and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). Brood size manipulation with nestlings of free-living great tits (Parus major) was carried out to see the way in...
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