Maternal hormones in vertebrate eggs can mediate important forms of maternal effects. However, the function of hormone transfer to the eggs is still debated, especially because long-term fitness consequences have been little studied. We investigated the effect of prenatal exposure to physiologically elevated yolk testosterone (T) levels on reproduction of female pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) ...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005 0003-3472/© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevie license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and detailed data sets are outstripping our ability to analyse them. These diverse, complex and often highdimensional data sets exhibit nonlinear dependenc...

The objective of this study was to determine the concentration of total selenium (Se) and the proportions of total Se comprised as selenomethionine (SeMet) and selenocysteine (SeCys) in the postmortem tissues of female pheasants (Phasianus Colchicus Torquator) offered diets that contained graded additions of selenised-enriched yeast (SY) or a single comparative dose of sodium selenite (SS). Thi...

2 2 N D N O R T H A M E R IC A N P R A IR IE C O N F E R E N C E | P R A IR IE F L O R A A N D F A U N A Abstract: Native prairie and savanna habitats in southeastern Minnesota have been mostly eliminated by agriculture and urbanization. Resource management agencies and private landowners have idled former agricultural land and planted prairie vegetation or grassland cover on some sites to rest...