ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Gull chicks grow faster but lose telomeres when prenatal cues mismatch the real presence of sibling competitors.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Genomic Integrity in Gull Chicks Predicts Colony Departure and Postfledging Movements.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Consistent and flexible maternal effects: how the environments of a mother influence the offspring phenotype.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Lasting benefits of embryonic eavesdropping on parent-parent communication.Science advances · 2024Article
- Exposure to calls before hatching affects the post-hatching behaviour of domestic chickens.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Maternal testosterone affects offspring telomerase activity in a long-lived seabird.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Contrasting associations between nestling telomere length and pre and postnatal helpers' presence in a cooperatively breeding bird.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Gull chicks grow faster but lose telomeres when prenatal cues mismatch the real presence of sibling competitors.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
During embryonic life, individuals should adjust their phenotype to the conditions that they will encounter after birth, including the social environment, if they have access to (social) cues that allow them to forecast future conditions. In birds, evidence indicates that embryos are sensitive to cues from clutch mates, but whether embryos adjust their development to cope with the expected level of sibling competition has not hitherto been investigated. To tackle this question, we performed a 'match versus mismatch' experimental design where we manipulated the presence of clutch mates (i.e. clutch size manipulation) and the real (postnatal) level of sibling competition (i.e. brood size manipulation) in the yellow-legged gull (
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