Nutritional constraints on egg production in birds
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Nutritional constraints on egg production in birds.
The production of eggs can make a major nutritional demand on a female bird. The scale of the required investment varies between species, depending on the size of each egg and the number of eggs laid. For large species, where egg weight is a small proportion of female body mass, the investment in the egg is small, but in some passerines the female will lay a clutch that weighs more than her own...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1079/pns19970110