Fifty shades of brown: Macroevolution of plumage brightness in the Furnariida, a large clade of drab Neotropical passerines

Comparing colors using visual models

(2018) Rafael Maia et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Predation and cryptic coloration in a managed landscape

(2018) Richard W. Orton et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Melanin-based sexual dichromatism in the Western Palearctic avifauna implies darker males and lighter females

(2018) Juan J. Negro et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Rapid phenotypic change in a native bird population following conversion of the Colorado Desert to agriculture

(2018) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds

(2018) Jonathan P. Drury et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The role of sexual and natural selection in shaping patterns of sexual dichromatism in the largest family of songbirds (Aves: Thraupidae)

(2017) Allison J. Shultz et al.   EVOLUTION

Broad-scale variation in sexual dichromatism in songbirds is not explained by sex differences in exposure to predators during incubation

(2017) Beata Matysioková et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Conspicuous plumage colours are highly variable

(2017) Kaspar Delhey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Monochromatism, cryptic sexual dimorphism and lack of assortative mating in the Rufous Hornero, Furnarius rufus albogularis

(2016) Pedro Diniz et al.   EMU

Selection, constraint, and the evolution of coloration in African starlings

(2016) Rafael Maia et al.   EVOLUTION

Ecogeographical gradients in plumage coloration among Australasian songbird clades

(2016) Nicholas R. Friedman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Inferring Bounded Evolution in Phenotypic Characters from Phylogenetic Comparative Data

(2016) Florian C. Boucher et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Rapid evolution of elaborate male coloration is driven by visual system in Australian fairy-wrens (Maluridae)

(2015) N. R. Friedman et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The effects of life history and sexual selection on male and female plumage colouration

(2015) James Dale et al.   NATURE

Natural and sexual selection act on different axes of variation in avian plumage color

(2015) P. O. Dunn et al.   Science Advances

Roses are red, violets are blue - so how much replication should you do? An assessment of variation in the colour of flowers and birds

(2014) Rhiannon L. Dalrymple et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

RECONSTRUCTING THE EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL DICHROMATISM: CURRENT COLOR DIVERSITY DOES NOT REFLECT PAST RATES OF MALE AND FEMALE CHANGE

(2014) J. Jordan Price et al.   EVOLUTION

Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology: Concepts and Practice. — Edited by László Zsolt Garamszegi

(2014) Matthew W. Pennell   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Novel Bayesian Method for Inferring and Interpreting the Dynamics of Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Comparative Data

(2014) Josef C. Uyeda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation

(2013) R. Maia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds

(2013) N. Seddon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Color-assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lacertid lizard

(2012) Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

IS YOUR PHYLOGENY INFORMATIVE? MEASURING THE POWER OF COMPARATIVE METHODS

(2012) Carl Boettiger et al.   EVOLUTION

MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION

(2012) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   EVOLUTION

Plumage evolution in relation to light environment in a novel clade of Neotropical tanagers

(2012) Allison J. Shultz et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Aesthetic evolution by mate choice: Darwin's really dangerous idea

(2012) R. O. Prum   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of female ornaments and weaponry: social selection, sexual selection and ecological competition

(2012) J. A. Tobias et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual selection is a form of social selection

(2012) B. E. Lyon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primate coat colour supports Gloger’s rule

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

Ecogeographic Patterns of Morphological Variation in Elepaios (Chasiempisspp.): Bergmann's, Allen's, and Gloger's Rules in a Microcosm

(2011) Eric A. VanderWerf   ORNITHOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds

(2011) S. Claramunt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Sexual Signal Evolution Outpaces Ecological Divergence during Electric Fish Species Radiation

(2010) Matthew E. Arnegard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

PLUMAGE EVOLUTION IN THE OROPENDOLAS AND CACIQUES: DIFFERENT DIVERGENCE RATES IN POLYGYNOUS AND MONOGAMOUS TAXA

(2009) J. Jordan Price et al.   EVOLUTION

SIZE-CORRECTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES

(2009) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

Evolution of Avian Plumage Color in a Tetrahedral Color Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of New World Buntings

(2008) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

EFFECTS OF SPECIMEN AGE ON PLUMAGE COLOR

(2008) JESSICA K. ARMENTA et al.   AUK

Ventral colour polymorphism correlates with alternative behavioural patterns in female common lizards (Lacerta vivipara)

(2008) Elodie Vercken et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Decline of melanism in two British moths: spatial, temporal and inter-specific variation

(2008) L M Cook et al.   HEREDITY

Call divergence is correlated with geographic and genetic distance in greenish warblers (Phylloscopus trochiloides): a strong role for stochasticity in signal evolution?

(2008) D. E. IRWIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY