BENEFITS OF EXTRA BEGGING FAIL TO COMPENSATE FOR IMMUNOLOGICAL COSTS IN SOUTHERN SHRIKE (LANIUS MERIDIONALIS) NESTLINGS.

Benefits of extra begging fail to compensate for immunological costs in southern shrike (Lanius meridionalis) nestlings.

Theoretical models aimed at explaining the evolution of honest, informative begging signals employed by nestling birds to solicit food from their parents, require that dishonest signalers incur a net viability cost in order to prevent runaway escalation of signal estes c6-5 engines bulk pack intensity over evolutionary time.Previous attempts to det

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Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor and Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Two Interesting Entities Identified in the Same Patient

We illustrate the case of a 41-year-old male with allergic manifestations since childhood.He sought medical attention for intermittent, progressive dysphagia from which he had been suffering for a number of years, having felt the sensation of a retrosternal lump and a self-limited obstruction to the passage of food.Endoscopy detected a submucosal t

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