GENDER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY IN NESTLING COLLARED FLYCATCHERS

Natural Selection of Parental Ability to Vary the Sex Ratio of Offspring

1973 • 3,779 citations

The theory of sex allocation.

1982 • 2,950 citations

Parasites, Bright Males, and the Immunocompetence Handicap

1992 • 2,795 citations

Interactions Between the Gonadal Steroids and the Immune System

1985 • 1,065 citations

Yolk is a source of maternal testosterone for developing birds.

1993 • 860 citations

Parental investment and sex differences in juvenile mortality in birds and mammals

1985 • 672 citations

Sex identification in birds using two CHD genes

1996 • 522 citations

First gene on the avian W chromosome (CHD) provides a tag for universal sexing of non-ratite birds

1996 • 486 citations

The costs of reproduction in the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

1988 • 470 citations

Sex Allocation Theory for Birds and Mammals

1990 • 451 citations

Sex differences in environmental sensitivity during growth and development

1985 • 442 citations

Brood Size Manipulations in the Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus): Effects on Offspring and Parent Survival

1990 • 435 citations

Effect of an Ectoparasite on Reproduction in Great Tits

1993 • 390 citations

Sex ratio adjustment in relation to paternal attractiveness in a wild bird population.

1996 • 367 citations

Trade-offs between life-history traits and a secondary sexual character in male collared flycatchers

1995 • 344 citations

Paternal genetic contribution to offspring condition predicted by size of male secondary sexual character

1997 • 303 citations

Adaptive Seasonal Variation in the Sex Ratio of Kestrel Broods

1990 • 292 citations

Reproductive strategies and disease susceptibility: an evolutionary viewpoint

1990 • 275 citations

Selection on Fledging Mass in the Collared Flycatcher and the Great Tit

1992 • 268 citations

Sex Ratio Adjustment Under Food Stress: Maximization of Quality or Numbers of Offspring?

1978 • 267 citations

Breeding Dispersal in the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis): Possible Causes and Reproductive Consequences

1989 • 264 citations

Life-history analysis of the Trivers and Willard sex-ratio problem

1996 • 235 citations

Influence of Sibling Competition on Nestling Sex Ratios of Sexually Dimorphic Birds

1986 • 207 citations

The Trade-Off Between Offspring Number and Quality in the Great Tit Parus major

1989 • 200 citations

Sex-Ratio Adjustment in the Common Grackle

1977 • 192 citations

Long-Term Effects of Brood Size Manipulation on Morphological Development and Sex-Specific Mortality of Offspring

1997 • 180 citations

Sex-Biased Litter Reduction in Food-Restricted Wood Rats ( Neotoma floridana )

1981 • 166 citations

Determinants and Consequences of Nestling Condition in Song Sparrows

1991 • 161 citations

New tools for sex identification and the study of sex allocation in birds

1997 • 161 citations

Maternal transfer of estradiol to egg yolks alters sexual differentiation of avian offspring

1995 • 159 citations

Sex‐biased mortality in the Lesser Black‐backed Gull Larus fuscus during the nestling stage

1992 • 154 citations

Effect of an ectoparasite on lay date, nest-site choice, desertion, and hatching success in the great tit (Pants major)

1994 • 152 citations

Great Tit Hatchling Sex Ratios

1996 • 147 citations

Differential Mortality of Male and Female Offspring in Experimentally Manipulated Broods of the Rook

1985 • 142 citations

Environmentally induced morphological variation in the Barnacle Goose, Branta leucopsis

1991 • 141 citations

The Cost of Reproduction in Birds: An Examination of the Evidence

2002 • 140 citations

EXPRESSION OF GENETIC VARIATION IN BODY SIZE OF THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER UNDER DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

1997 • 123 citations

Genetic Variation in Offspring Condition: An Experiment

1996 • 116 citations

Obligate and Facultative Brood Reduction in Eagles: An Examination of Factors that Influence Fratricide

1983 • 111 citations

Sex-Specific Energy Requirements of Great-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) Nestlings

1988 • 106 citations

Sex‐Specific Mortality in Nestling Great‐Tailed Grackles

1989 • 102 citations

Offspring sex and paternity in the collared flycatcher

1996 • 83 citations

Intraseasonal Variation in the Development of Sexual Size Dimorphism in a Precocial Bird: Evidence from the Lesser Snow Goose

1996 • 78 citations

Antagonistic natural selection revealed by molecular sex identification of nestling collared flycatchers

1997 • 67 citations

The Sex Ratio of Nestling Great Tits

1970 • 56 citations

Expression of Genetic Variation in Body Size of the Collared Flycatcher Under Different Environmental Conditions

1997 • 43 citations

Heritabilities of growth curve parameters and age-specific expression of genetic variation under two different feeding regimes in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

1993 • 29 citations

Evolution of morphological differences with moderate genetic correlations among traits as exemplified by two flycatcher species (Ficedula; Muscicapidae)

1994 • 26 citations

Secondary sex ratio adjustment in red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

1983 • 22 citations