Shape matters: animal colour patterns as signals of individual quality

Evolutionary pathways to convergence in plumage patterns

(2016) Thanh-Lan Gluckman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Spatial patterns of correlated scale size and scale color in relation to color pattern elements in butterfly wings

(2016) Masaki Iwata et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Signalling with a cryptic trait: the regularity of barred plumage in common waxbills

(2016) Cristiana I. J. Marques et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Socially selected ornaments and fitness: Signals of fighting ability in paper wasps are positively associated with survival, reproductive success, and rank

(2015) Elizabeth A. Tibbetts et al.   EVOLUTION

Is the denser contour feather structure in pale grey than in pheomelanic brown tawny owls Strix aluco an adaptation to cold environments?

(2015) Katja Koskenpato et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Image calibration and analysis toolbox - a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern

(2015) Jolyon Troscianko et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Analyzing Fluctuating Asymmetry with Geometric Morphometrics: Concepts, Methods, and Applications

(2015) Christian Klingenberg   Symmetry-Basel

Sexy males and choosy females on exploded leks: Correlates of male attractiveness in the Little Bustard

(2014) Frédéric Jiguet et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Paradox lost: variable colour-pattern geometry is associated with differences in movement in aposematic frogs

(2014) B. Rojas et al.   Biology Letters

The Evolution of Honest Communication: Integrating Social and Physiological Costs of Ornamentation

(2014) E. A. Tibbetts   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Pattern recognition algorithm reveals how birds evolve individual egg pattern signatures

(2014) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   Nature Communications

Sexual dimorphism and intra-populational colour pattern variation in the aposematic frog Dendrobates tinctorius

(2013) Bibiana Rojas et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Sexual size dimorphism in anurans fails to obey Rensch’s rule

(2013) Wen Bo Liao et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Fractal geometry of a complex plumage trait reveals bird's quality

(2013) L. Perez-Rodriguez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Topology of Feather Melanocyte Progenitor Niche Allows Complex Pigment Patterns to Emerge

(2013) S. J. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

Fractal geometry for animal biometrics: a response to Kühl and Burghardt

(2013) Roger Jovani et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Cheek Plumage Uniformity as a Social Status Signal in Great Tits

(2012) Ismael Galván et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Pelage coloration in pinnipeds: functional considerations

(2012) Tim Caro et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A framework for analysing colour pattern geometry: adjacent colours

(2012) John A. Endler   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX COLOR PATTERNS IN DRAGON LIZARDS

(2012) I-Ping Chen et al.   EVOLUTION

Egg yolk antioxidant deposition as a function of parental ornamentation, age, and environment in great tits Parus major

(2011) Vladimír Remeš et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Geographic Variation in the Status Signals of Polistes dominulus Paper Wasps

(2011) Elizabeth A. Tibbetts et al.   PLoS One

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioral and physiological factors associated with juvenile hormone in Polistes wasp foundresses

(2010) Elizabeth A. Tibbetts et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

(2010) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird's eye

(2010) M. C. Stoddard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why the leopard got its spots: relating pattern development to ecology in felids

(2010) W. L. Allen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The function of contrasting pelage markings in artiodactyls

(2009) Tim Caro et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A method to quantify the regularity of barred plumage patterns

(2009) Thanh-Lan Gluckman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Advances in Geometric Morphometrics

(2009) Philipp Mitteroecker et al.   Evolutionary Biology

The scaling effects of substrate texture on camouflage patterning in cuttlefish

(2009) Chuan-Chin Chiao et al.   VISION RESEARCH

Visual signals of status and rival assessment in Polistes dominulus paper wasps

(2008) E. A. Tibbetts et al.   Biology Letters

Cuttlefish camouflage: The effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns

(2008) Alexandra Barbosa et al.   VISION RESEARCH