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| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
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| Author | Ligon, Russell A. Hill, Geoffrey E. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Males typically have greater variance in reproductive success than females, so mothers should benefit by producing sons under favorable conditions. Being paired with a better-than-average mate is one such favorable circumstance. High-quality fathers can improve conditions for their offspring by providing good genes, good resources, or both, so females paired to such males should invest preferentially in sons. Ornamentation has been linked to male quality in many birds and, in support of differential allocation theory, females of several avian species invest more in entire broods when paired to attractive mates. Additionally, the females of some bird species apparently manipulate the primary sex-ratio of their broods in relation to the attractiveness of their mates. However, empirical support for a link between mate ornamentation and preferential feeding of sons (another form of biased investment) is lacking. We tested for correlations between sex-biased parental investment and mate plumage colour in the eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis), a species in which juveniles have sexually dichromatic UV-blue plumage. We found that the proportion of maternal feeding attempts to fledgling sons (versus fledgling daughters) was positively correlated with structurally coloured plumage ornamentation of fathers. Additionally, paternal feeding attempts to sons were correlated with plumage ornamentation of mothers and increased in fathers exhibiting breast plumage characteristics typical of older males. These results provide further support for the idea that parental strategies are influenced by mate attractiveness and provide the first evidence that mate ornamentation can influence parental behavior even after offspring have left the nest. |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.028 |
| Ending Page | 734 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 727 |
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| ISSN | 00033472 |
| Journal | Animal behaviour |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 79 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
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