Experimental reduction of male wing length reveals benefits of pairing with good fathers

Published: 28 April 2026| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/w3my82g6f8.1
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This study examined natural variation in male wing length, paired with an experimental reduction in this trait, in a wild population of Prothonotary Warblers (Protonotaria citrea). The data collected for this study at the University of Memphis' Edward J. Meeman Biological Station (35.3637N, 90.0177W) are contained in a .SAS file that is intended to be immediately executable to recreate all analyses reported in the associated paper. Provided in this file are a total of 7 datasets with raw and standardized values (for continuous variables): (i) Unique_males2017, (ii) Nests2017, (iii) Expt_nests, (iv) Expt_nests_stacked, (v) Expt_young), (vi) All_nests2017_2024, (vii) All_recruits. All analyses were conducted using SAS (ver. 9.4).

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Wild Bird, Behavioral Experiment, Parental Investment, Paternity

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  • University of Memphis Department of Biological Sciences
  • Tennessee Ornithological Society
  • American Ornithological Society
  • Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution
  • Pritzker Foundation
  • Grainger Bioinformatics Center

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