Timing of reproduction and egg quality covary with temperature in the insectivorous Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica

By N. Saino, M. Romano, R. Ambrosini, R. Ferrari, A. Møller. 2004

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Individual quality and food availability determine yolk and egg mass and egg composition in tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor (2006, background): “But these early differences may be critical to other measures of quality, such as lysozymes, antibodies and carotenoids ( Saino et al. 2004 ), especially given the likelihood of higher yolk stores in hatchlings from eggs with high yolk mass.”
Mouth coloration of nestlings covaries with offspring quality and influences parental feeding behavior (2007, background): “Nestling mortality is typically very low, and last laid eggs in a clutch are relatively large, suggesting that this species does not adopt a brood reduction strategy based on hatch order, which largely reflects laying order (Saino et al. 2004; Ferrari et al. 2006).”
Maternal allocation of androgens and antagonistic effects of yolk androgens on sons and daughters (2006, unknown): “In fact, total mass of barn swallow eggs is known to increase with laying order (Ferrari et al., in press; Saino et al., 2004).”