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Head Colour and Age Relate to Personality Traits in Gouldian Finches

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Genetics of Plumage Color in the Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus): Analysis of the Melanocortin-1 Receptor Gene

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

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Pigments, Parasites and Personalitiy: Towards a Unifying Role for Steroid Hormones?

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The dynamics, transmission, and population impacts of avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds: a modeling approach

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Meta-analysis and research on host–parasite interactions: past and future

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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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Blood parasites mediate morph-specific maintenance costs in a colour polymorphic wild bird

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

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

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Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

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Eumelanin-based coloration and fitness parameters in birds: a meta-analysis

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Post-fledging recruitment in relation to nestling plasma testosterone and immunocompetence in the spotless starling

(2010) Isabel López-Rull et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Long-term impact of changes in sheep Ovis aries densities on the breeding output of the hen harrier Circus cyaneus

(2010) Arjun Amar et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Transcriptomic response of red grouse to gastro-intestinal nematode parasites and testosterone: implications for population dynamics

(2010) L. M. I. WEBSTER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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The Neuropeptide Alpha-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Is Critically Involved in the Development of Cytotoxic CD8+ T Cells in Mice and Humans

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Antioxidant Machinery Differs between Melanic and Light Nestlings of Two Polymorphic Raptors

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Testosterone‐Mediated Effects on Fitness‐Related Phenotypic Traits and Fitness

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Strength and cost of an induced immune response are associated with a heritable melanin-based colour trait in female tawny owls

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Aggression and fitness differences between plumage morphs in the common buzzard (Buteo buteo)

(2008) M. Boerner et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

(2008) N. Chakarov et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

On sexual dimorphism in immune function

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Maximum Host Survival at Intermediate Parasite Infection Intensities

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Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

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