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Viability Is Associated with Melanin-Based Coloration in the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

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

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Dynamics of balanced polymorphism morphs in blue rock pigeon Columbia livia

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Interspecific variation in fear responses predicts urbanization in birds

(2010) A. P. Moller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Reproduction management affects breeding ecology and reproduction costs in feral urban Pigeons (Columba livia)

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Sex-dependent selection on an autosomal melanic female ornament promotes the evolution of sex ratio bias

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Regulation of stress response is heritable and functionally linked to melanin-based coloration

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Pheomelanin‐Based Coloration and the Ability to Cope with Variation in Food Supply and Parasitism

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U-CARE: Utilities for performing goodness of fit tests and manipulating CApture–REcapture data

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Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western Palearctic

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Effects of urbanisation on disease prevalence and age structure in blackbirdTurdus merulapopulations

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The Risk of Flawed Inference in Evolutionary Studies When Detectability Is Less than One

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Interspecific variation in avian blood parasites and haematology associated with urbanization in a desert habitat

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Variation in stress and innate immunity in the tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) across an urban–rural gradient

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Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

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