Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds
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Body composition
Breeding season
Brood (honey bee)
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Climate change
Common eider
Corticosterone
Ecology
Egg as food
Egg cell
Embryo
Endocrinology
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Estrogen
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Fecundity
Fecundity selection
Female
Fertilisation
Fitness (biology)
Foraging
Gonad
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
Great tit
Heritability
Homeostasis
Hormone
House sparrow
Lipid
Mammal
Maternal effect
Metabolism
Model organism
Moulting
National Science Foundation
Nest box
Nutrient
Oocyte
Ovarian follicle
Ovary
Oviduct
Oviparity
Oxidative stress
Passerine
Phenology
Phenotype
Phenotypic plasticity
Phenotypic trait
Photoperiodism
Physiology
Polymorphism (biology)
Predation
Prolactin
Protein
Reproduction
Reproductive success
Reproductive system
Secretion
Sexual dimorphism
Testicle
Thyroid hormone
Tit (bird)
Trade-off
Uterus
Vitellogenesis
Vitellogenin
Year
Yolk
Zebra finch
Product details
- ISBN 9780691139821
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2012
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration of female avian reproductive physiology and ecology, and an emphasis on individual variation in life-history traits. Tony Williams investigates the physiological, metabolic, energetic, and hormonal mechanisms that underpin individual variation in the key female-specific reproductive traits and the trade-offs between these traits that determine variation in fitness. The core of the book deals with the avian reproductive cycle, from seasonal gonadal development, through egg laying and incubation, to chick rearing. Reproduction is considered in the context of the annual cycle and through an individual's entire life history. The book focuses on timing of breeding, clutch size, egg size and egg quality, and parental care. It also provides a primer on female reproductive physiology and considers trade-offs and carryover effects between reproduction and other life-history stages. In each chapter, Williams describes individual variation in the trait of interest and the evolutionary context for trait variation.
He argues that there is only a rudimentary, and in some cases nonexistent, understanding of the physiological mechanisms that underpin individual variation in the major reproductive life-history traits, and that research efforts should refocus on these key unresolved problems by incorporating detailed physiological studies into existing long-term population studies, generating a new synthesis of physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
Tony D. Williams is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of The Penguins.
