Free Radical Exposure Creates Paler Carotenoid-Based Ornaments: A Possible Interaction in the Expression of Black and Red Traits

Oxidative stress as a life-history constraint: the role of reactive oxygen species in shaping phenotypes from conception to death

(2010) Neil B. Metcalfe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Carotenoid-based coloration predicts resistance to oxidative damage during immune challenge

(2010) L. Perez-Rodriguez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Oxidative stress and information content of black and yellow plumage coloration: an experiment with greenfinches

(2010) P. Horak et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Carotenoids in evolutionary ecology: re-evaluating the antioxidant role

(2009) Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez   BIOESSAYS

No simple measures for antioxidant status in birds: complexity in inter- and intraspecific correlations among circulating antioxidant types

(2009) Alan A. Cohen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A multifactorial test of the effects of carotenoid access, food intake and parasite load on the production of ornamental feathers and bill coloration in American goldfinches

(2009) G. E. Hill et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The evolution of eu- and pheomelanic traits may respond to an economy of pigments related to environmental oxidative stress

(2009) Ismael Galván et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Testosterone-mediated trade-offs in the old age: a new approach to the immunocompetence handicap and carotenoid-based sexual signalling

(2009) C. Alonso-Alvarez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The expression of melanin-based plumage is separately modulated by exogenous oxidative stress and a melanocortin

(2009) I. Galvan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The importance of white on black: unmelanized plumage proportion predicts display complexity in birds

(2008) Ismael Galván   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Oxidative stress as a mediator of life history trade-offs: mechanisms, measurements and interpretation

(2008) Pat Monaghan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carotenoids are minor antioxidants for birds

(2008) D. Costantini et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The oxidation handicap hypothesis and the carotenoid allocation trade-off

(2008) C. ALONSO-ALVAREZ et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cell-mediated immune activation rapidly decreases plasma carotenoids but does not affect oxidative stress in red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa)

(2008) L. Perez-Rodriguez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Sex-specific effects of prenatal testosterone on nestling plasma antioxidant capacity in the zebra finch

(2008) M. Tobler et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Carotenoid-based bill and eye ring coloration as honest signals of condition: an experimental test in the red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa)

(2008) Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Melanin- and carotenoid-dependent signals of great tits (Parus major) relate differently to metal pollution

(2008) Tom Dauwe et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

An Intracellular Antioxidant Determines the Expression of a Melanin-Based Signal in a Bird

(2008) Ismael Galván et al.   PLoS One

Compensatory growth and oxidative stress in a damselfly

(2008) M. De Block et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sterol regulators of cholesterol homeostasis and beyond: The oxysterol hypothesis revisited and revised

(2008) S GILL et al.   PROGRESS IN LIPID RESEARCH

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Oxidative stress does not influence carotenoid mobilization and plumage pigmentation

(2007) C. Isaksson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES