Code
3F023707
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Animal biology
- General biology
- Genetics
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary medicine
Keywords
immune factors
ectoparasites
Great Tit Parus major
evolution
food availability
fitness consequences
maternal effects
sex-allocation
Project description
Through controlled field experiments in a population of the Great Tit (Parus major) residing in the proximity of the city of Ghent, (i) the effect of food availability and pathogeny of the environment on maternal investment in egg yolk immune factors and sex-allocation, and (ii) the consequences of differential maternal investment on the offspring's fitness will be examined.