A tale of two tails: asymmetry in Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor)
Abstract Background Asymmetry in the wild is a controversial, and to date, unresolved subject. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is the developmental instability (intra-individual variation) while, directional asymmetry (DA) expresses the asymmetry of the population mean. Methods We analysed 63 Great Grey...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3971766 2023-05-15T17:06:33+02:00 A tale of two tails: asymmetry in Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) Yosef, Reuven Kubicka, Anna Brandsma, Martin Tryjanowski, Piotr 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3971766 https://figshare.com/collections/A_tale_of_two_tails_asymmetry_in_Great_Grey_Shrike_Lanius_excubitor_/3971766 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40657-017-0094-1 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Medicine Cell Biology Neuroscience Evolutionary Biology FOS Biological sciences Ecology Developmental Biology Collection article 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3971766 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-017-0094-1 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Abstract Background Asymmetry in the wild is a controversial, and to date, unresolved subject. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is the developmental instability (intra-individual variation) while, directional asymmetry (DA) expresses the asymmetry of the population mean. Methods We analysed 63 Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) skins at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. The black markings on the tails were digitized in order to evaluate the symmetry of the two sides of each shrike. Ptilochronology helped understand if nutritional condition affected symmetry. Results ANOVA revealed no significant differences in size of the tail between sexes (F = 1.67, p > 0.05). However, there was significant difference in the shape of the black area in feathers between the sexes (F = 2.14, p Article in Journal/Newspaper Lanius excubitor DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Abstract Background Asymmetry in the wild is a controversial, and to date, unresolved subject. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is the developmental instability (intra-individual variation) while, directional asymmetry (DA) expresses the asymmetry of the population mean. Methods We analysed 63 Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) skins at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. The black markings on the tails were digitized in order to evaluate the symmetry of the two sides of each shrike. Ptilochronology helped understand if nutritional condition affected symmetry. Results ANOVA revealed no significant differences in size of the tail between sexes (F = 1.67, p > 0.05). However, there was significant difference in the shape of the black area in feathers between the sexes (F = 2.14, p |
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A tale of two tails: asymmetry in Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) |
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