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No sex difference in preen oil chemical composition during incubation in Kentish plovers.

Marc Gilles, András Kosztolányi, Afonso D Rocha, Innes C Cuthill, Tamás Székely, Barbara A Caspers

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Article in PeerJ, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Marc GillesDepartment of Behavioural Ecology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
András KosztolányiDepartment of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
Afonso D RochaEcology in the Anthropocene, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Innes C CuthillSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Tamás SzékelyMilner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.
Barbara A CaspersDepartment of Behavioural Ecology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.

Funding

Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftNational Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preen oil, the secretion from the uropygial gland of birds, may have a specific function in incubation. Consistent with this, during incubation, the chemical composition of preen oil is more likely to differ between sexes in species where only one sex incubates than in species where both sexes incubate. In this study, we tested the generality of this apparent difference, by investigating sex differences in the preen oil composition of a shorebird species, the Kentish plover (

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Gas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryAnimalsFemaleMaleSex CharacteristicsSex FactorsAvian scentBird odourCharadriiformesChemical profileOlfactory communicationSex semiochemicalUropygial gland secretionWader

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PMID38737740
PMCPMC11088368

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