Clinal variation in the morph ratio of Black SparrowhawksAccipiter melanoleucusin South Africa and its correlation with environmental variables

Differential Haemoparasite Intensity between Black Sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) Morphs Suggests an Adaptive Function for Polymorphism

(2014) Bonnie Lei et al.   PLoS One

Melanocortin-1-receptor (MC1R) variation is not associated with parasite burden in a neotropical bird, the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)

(2013) Andrew D. C. MacColl et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Colour-variable birds have broader ranges, wider niches and are less likely to be threatened

(2013) K. Delhey et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Similar patterns of local barn owl adaptation in the Middle East and Europe with respect to melanic coloration

(2012) MOTTI CHARTER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Plumage polymorphism in a newly colonized black sparrowhawk population: classification, temporal stability and inheritance patterns

(2012) A. Amar et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Melanin-based coloration is related to parasite intensity and cellular immune response in an urban free living bird: the feral pigeon Columba livia

(2011) Lisa Jacquin et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primate coat colour supports Gloger’s rule

(2011) Jason M. Kamilar et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

MC1R-dependent, melanin-based colour polymorphism is associated with cell-mediated response in the Eleonora’s falcon

(2011) L. GANGOSO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Local adaptation and matching habitat choice in female barn owls with respect to melanic coloration

(2011) A. N. DREISS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Climate change drives microevolution in a wild bird

(2011) Patrik Karell et al.   Nature Communications

Inheritance Patterns of Plumage Morph in Swainson's Hawks

(2010) Christopher W. Briggs et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Avian range changes and climate change: a cautionary tale from the Cape Peninsula

(2010) Philip AR Hockey et al.   OSTRICH

Global changes and animal phenotypic responses: melanin-based plumage redness of scops owls increased with temperature and rainfall during the last century

(2009) P. Galeotti et al.   Biology Letters

Doomed to die? Predicting extinction risk in the true hawks Accipitridae

(2008) O. Krüger et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Fitness in common buzzards at the cross-point of opposite melanin-parasite interactions

(2008) N. Chakarov et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Selection on a eumelanic ornament is stronger in the tropics than in temperate zones in the worldwide-distributed barn owl

(2008) A. ROULIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY