Nutritional Stress Causes Heterogeneous Relationships with Multi-Trait FA in Lesser Black-Backed Gull Chicks: An Aviary Experiment

Nutritional Stress Causes Heterogeneous Relationships with Multi-Trait FA in Lesser Black-Backed Gull Chicks: An Aviary Experiment

Environmental stressors have the potential to induce perturbations in the development of young individuals, leading to aberrant and unstable development. This may manifest as fluctuating asymmetry (FA; small, non-directional changes in the bilateral symmetry of morphological traits). Although widely...

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Main Authors: Trisha Gupta, Cátia S. A. Santos, Alejandro Sotillo, Liesbeth De Neve, Eric W. M. Stienen, Wendt Müller, Luc Lens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-11-01
Series:Symmetry
Subjects:
fluctuating asymmetry
Larus fuscus
nutritional stress
energetic constraints
biomarkers
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/8/11/133

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