Early Nutritional Stress Impairs Development of a Song-Control Brain Region in Both Male and Female Juvenile Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia) at the Onset of Song Learning
Birdsong is a sexually selected trait and is often viewed as an indicator of male quality. The developmental stress hypothesis proposes a model by which song could be an indicator; the time during early development, when birds learn complex songs and/or local variants of song, is of rapid developmen...
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