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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Egg Characteristics of Female Common Terns Are Repeatable, and Vary With Maternal Age and Laying Order.

Coraline Bichet, Maria Moiron, Nathalie Kürten, Oscar Vedder, Sandra Bouwhuis

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. 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

5 authors.

Coraline BichetCentre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, UMR-CNRS 7372 La Rochelle Université Villiers-en-Bois France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0255-4966
Maria MoironInstitute of Avian Research Wilhelmshaven Germany.
Nathalie KürtenInstitute of Avian Research Wilhelmshaven Germany.
Oscar VedderInstitute of Avian Research Wilhelmshaven Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4689-8568
Sandra BouwhuisInstitute of Avian Research Wilhelmshaven Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4023-1578

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Avian eggs exhibit striking variability in size, shape, colour, and maculation, not only among but also within species. Technical and analytical advances in image analysis offer the opportunity to understand the factors underpinning this variability, especially when individual-based longitudinal data are available. Making use of such data, collected over four years, we investigated sources of variation in eight egg characteristics capturing the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of 1589 eggs from 687 clutches produced by 330 female common terns (

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egg camouflageegg colorationegg elongationegg pointednessegg qualityegg shapeegg volumepolar asymmetryspottiness

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PMID41268187
PMCPMC12628015

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