Tarsus length
Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
... reduced, resulting in a delay in the timing of feather eruption and a lengthening of the nestling period [9]. The mechanism by which food restriction alters growth seems relatively straight-forward, a lack of food equals ...
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Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
... reduced, resulting in a delay in the timing of feather eruption and a lengthening of the nestling period [9]. The mechanism by which food restriction alters growth seems relatively straight-forward, a lack of food equals ...
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Articles
... and tarsus lengths) of several species of pas- serine declined in Israel over the second half of the twentieth century, while minimum summer temperatures increased over the same time ...in tarsus ...
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Body condition evaluation, external biometrics measurements and morphology of digestive tube of red cowled cardinals
... total length with feathers, total length without feathers, length of the tail, length of the tarsus, length of the wings with feathers, length of the wings without ...
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Condition dependent strategies of eggshell pigmentation: an experimental study of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)
... on tarsus length) (Walters and Getty, ...on tarsus length), eggshell physical reflectance (brightness, UV chroma and chroma) or perceived discrimination by an avian visual system (chromatic ...
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Morphometrics and Body Condition Index of Eurasian Collared Dove and Mourning Dove in Durango, Mexico
... (head length), distance from the rostral end of the premaxilla to the tip of the bill (bill length) and distance from the nares to the tip of the bill (culmen ...length). Tarsus length ...
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More ornamented females produce higher-quality offspring in a socially monogamous bird: an experimental study in the great tit (Parus major)
... Fieldwork was carried out in 2006 and 2007 from early April until mid-June. We checked nest-boxes daily to record laying of the first egg and final clutch size. There- after, we checked nest-boxes daily around the ...
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Are there synergistic or antagonistic effects of multiple maternally derived egg components on offspring phenotype?
... (tarsus length), body mass at sexual maturity (day 82), chick survival, humoral immune function or any measured female reproductive trait at sexual ...
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Effects of a short period of elevated circulating corticosterone on postnatal growth in free living Eurasian kestrels Falco tinnunculus
... the length of primary feather 8, hand length, tarsus length, body mass and subcutaneous fat stores from day 10 to ...and tarsus growth were significantly reduced to 14% and 26% of ...
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Kinematics of diving Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica L ): evidence for an active upstroke
... Morphological variables are presented in Table 1. Despite random sampling, all six birds were female with a mean mass (M) of 0.446±0.0125 kg and a mean tarsus length of 0.0277±0.00026 m. Video images of one ...
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Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule in two passerine birds in China
... bill length and tarsal length against wing length and extracted the residuals from the models (residual of bill length/tarsus ...
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Aerobic capacity in wild satin bowerbirds: repeatability and effects of age, sex and condition
... values of mass and V O2,max in most analyses to linearize relationships (back-transformed results are shown in the tables). For all tests other than repeatability, we used a single datum point for each individual. For ...
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Articles
... Our dataset contains six morphological traits, including body mass, body length, head length, natural wing length, tail length and tarsus length (Table 1). We used three methods ...
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Heritability of nestling growth in cross-fostered European Starlings Sturnus vulgaris.
... LUNDRF.RC;, 1986 Heritability and selection on tarsus length in the Pied Flycatcher (Acedulu hypoleuca). LLINLIBLRG, 1984 High fre- quency of cuckoldry in pied and collared [r] ...
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Lamellar rotation surgery: a new procedure for repairing upper eyelid defects
... and tarsus was ...temporal tarsus of the lower eye- lid with the remnant temporal tarsus of the upper eye- lid ...combined tarsus to reconstruct the posterior lamellar defect of the upper ...
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Leg regeneration is epigenetically regulated by histone H3K27 methylation in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
... Fig. 8. Model for the repatterning process during leg regeneration in cricket. (A) Schematics of Gb ’ dac, Gb ’ Egfr, Gb ’ BarH and Gb ’ Dll expression in control, Gb ’ E(z) RNAi andGb ’ Utx RNAi regenerating legs. The ...
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<p>Anterior Lamellar Recession versus Posterior Lamellar Tarsal Rotation for Lower Lid Trachomatous Trichiasis: A Randomized Controlled Trial</p>
... All surgeries were performed by a single surgeon (MMD) who has good experience in performing lower lid TT procedures. The surgery was performed under local anesthesia with intravenous sedation using 3x binocular loupes. ...
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Coordinated development of muscles and tendons of the Drosophila leg
... Fig. 4. Development of internal tendons and late steps of appendicular myogenesis. Tendons are visualised in the leg discs of (A) 1151-Gal4/UAS-GFP and (B) Stripe- Gal4/UAS-GFP pupae at 8 hours APF. Tendon precursors are ...
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Targeting CD226/DNAX accessory molecule-1 (DNAM-1) in collagen-induced arthritis mouse models
... Evaluation of arthritic joints by ultrasound This evaluation was performed in collaboration with the Small Animal Imaging Facility, which developed the ultrasound (US) examination in arthritic mice. Mice were monitored ...
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Performance and adaptive value of tarsal morphology in rove beetles of the genus Stenus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
... I have therefore tested two alternative hypotheses to explain the primary biological role of widened bilobed tarsi in this group of organisms: (i) that widened tarsi allow better adhesion to smooth (plant) surfaces and ...
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