Egg size, offspring sex and hatching asynchrony in zebra finchesTaeniopygia guttata

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Rutkowska ◽  
Mariusz Cichon
10.2307/5127 ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Slagsvold ◽  
Jan T. Lifjeld
Keyword(s):  
Egg Size ◽  

Ethology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 112 (6) ◽  
pp. 554-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Leitner ◽  
Rupert C. Marshall ◽  
Bernd Leisler ◽  
Clive K. Catchpole

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 1102-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajkumar S. Radder ◽  
David A. Pike ◽  
Alexander E. Quinn ◽  
Richard Shine
Keyword(s):  
Egg Size ◽  

The Condor ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meritxell Genovart ◽  
Daniel Oro ◽  
Xavier Ruiz ◽  
Richard Griffiths ◽  
Pat Monaghan ◽  
...  

AbstractWe examined seasonal variation in the hatching sex ratio of Audouin's Gull (Larus audouinii). This species is sexually size dimorphic (males are 20% larger than females at fledging); it has a modal clutch of three eggs, which vary in size (the third egg is the smallest) and hatch asynchronously. These sex, egg size, and hatching patterns generate substantial within-brood differences in chick size that interact with the food provisioning of the parents to influence chick survival. Parental provisioning capacity depends on both parental quality and environmental conditions, both of which are known to decline with season. Consequently, the optimal brood composition is likely to vary within a season. Using molecular markers to sex newly hatched chicks, we found that offspring sex was influenced by an interaction between hatching date and hatching order, with the proportion of males among third-hatched chicks initially increasing and then decreasing later in the season.Cambios Estacionales en la Proporción de Sexos de las Polladas en Larus audouiniiResumen. En el presente trabajo examinamos la variación estacional en la proporción de sexos de los pollos de Larus audouinii en el momento de la eclosión. Esta especie es sexualmente dimórfica (los machos son un 20% mayores que las hembras al acabar su crecimiento), tiene una puesta modal de tres huevos, que varían en tamaño (el tercero es el menor) y eclosionan asincrónicamente. Estos patrones de sexo, tamaño del huevo y orden de eclosión generan diferencias sustanciales en el tamaño de los pollos dentro de la pollada, los que a su vez interaccionan con la provisión de alimento de los progenitores influyendo la supervivencia de cada pollo. La capacidad de proveer alimento dependerá de la calidad parental y de las condiciones ambientales, las cuales suelen disminuir a lo largo de la estación reproductora. En consecuencia, la composición óptima de la pollada probablemente varía en cada estación. Una vez identificado de sexo de los pollos mediante técnicas moleculares, encontramos que el sexo de la progenie estuvo influenciado por la interacción entre la fecha de eclosión y el orden de eclosión, de modo que la proporción de machos en los huevos eclosionados en tercer lugar incrementó inicialmente y luego disminuyó al final de la estación.


2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1055-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn T. Crossin ◽  
Maud Poisbleau ◽  
Laurent Demongin ◽  
Olivier Chastel ◽  
Tony D. Williams ◽  
...  

Hormonally mediated maternal effects link maternal phenotype and environmental conditions to offspring phenotype. The production of lipid-rich maternal yolk precursors may provide a mechanism by which lipophilic steroid hormones can be transported to developing yolks, thus predicting a positive correlation between yolk precursors in mothers and androgen levels in eggs. Using rockhopper penguins ( Eudyptes chrysocome ), which produce a two-egg clutch characterized by extreme egg-size dimorphism, reversed hatching asynchrony and brood-reduction, we examined correlations between circulating concentrations of the primary yolk-precursor vitellogenin (VTG) and levels of yolk androgens. Previous work in Eudyptes penguins has shown that egg-size dimorphism is the product of migratory constraints on yolk precursor production. We predicted that if yolk precursors are constrained, androgen transport to developing yolks would be similarly constrained. We reveal positive linear relationships between maternal VTG and androgens in small A-eggs but not larger B-eggs, which is consistent with a migratory constraint operating on the A-egg. Results suggest that intra-clutch variation in total yolk androgen levels depends on the production and uptake of yolk precursors. The brood reduction strategy common to Eudyptes might thus be best described as the result of a migratory constraint.


2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Saino ◽  
M. Romano ◽  
M. Caprioli ◽  
R. Ambrosini ◽  
D. Rubolini ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 871-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne R. Edmunds ◽  
C. Davison Ankney

The sex of 306 Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) chicks from 153 two-egg clutches laid during March–August 1984 was determined by gonadal inspection. Sex of offspring was unrelated to egg sequence over the entire breeding season. There was, however, a seasonal effect on the sex versus egg sequence pattern, particularly in broods with both sexes: during the middle of the breeding season males predominated in first eggs and females in second eggs but this pattern was reversed late in the season. All other comparisons, i.e., overall sex ratio, seasonal changes in sex ratio, binomial distribution of family types, and the relation between egg size and offspring sex, were nonsignificant.


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