Cook, Mark I.; Beissinger, Steven R.; Toranzos, Gary A.; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 30-36
incubate early because asynchronous hatching provides fitness benefits to parents or surviving offspring. An alternative idea … viability; cleaned eggs held at the cool site had the highest hatching success, which was significantly greater than for … unincubated eggs of a wild bird, and that infection and ambient temperature act independently to reduce hatching success. These …