Sex-Based Differences in Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) Chick Growth Rates and Diet

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Jennings, Scott, Varsani, Arvind, Dugger, Katie M., Ballard, Grant, Ainley, David G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Cape Crozier; Crozier; Ross Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pygoscelis adeliae
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4775033/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26934698; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149090

Sexually size-dimorphic species must show some difference between the sexes in growth rate and/or length of growing period. Such differences in growth parameters can cause the sexes to be impacted by environmental variability in different ways, and understanding these differences allows a better und...