Production of plumage ornaments among males and females of two closely related tropical passerine bird species

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(2016) Samantha M. Lantz et al.   AUK

Testosterone activates sexual dimorphism including male-typical carotenoid but not melanin plumage pigmentation in a female bird

(2016) Willow R. Lindsay et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Distinctiveness of Pacific Robin subspecies in Vanuatu revealed from disparate patterns of sexual dichromatism, plumage colouration, morphometrics and ancient DNA

(2015) Anna M. Kearns et al.   EMU

Modular color evolution facilitated by a complex nanostructure in birds

(2015) Chad M. Eliason et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Effect of theMC1Rgene on sexual dimorphism in melanin-based colorations

(2015) Luis M. San-Jose et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Morphological and plumage colour variation in the Réunion grey white-eye (Aves:Zosterops borbonicus): assessing the role of selection

(2014) Josselin Cornuault et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Melanin-Based Color of Plumage: Role of Condition and of Feathers' Microstructure

(2014) L. D'Alba et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Pathways to elaboration of sexual dimorphism in bird plumage patterns

(2013) Thanh-Lan Gluckman   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Female ornamentation in Malurus fairy-wrens: a hidden evolutionary gem for understanding female perspectives on social and sexual selection

(2013) Jordan Karubian   EMU

Revisiting the condition-dependence of melanin-based plumage

(2013) Sarah Guindre-Parker et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN 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

Experimental evidence that extra-pair mating drives asymmetrical introgression of a sexual trait

(2013) D. T. Baldassarre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetics of colouration in birds

(2013) Alexandre Roulin et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular systematics of the world's most polytypic bird: thePachycephala pectoralis/melanura(Aves: Pachycephalidae) species complex

(2013) Michael J. Andersen et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Different modes of evolution in males and females generate dichromatism in fairy-wrens (Maluridae)

(2013) Allison E. Johnson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Female ornaments revisited - are they correlated with offspring quality?

(2012) Jarle T. Nordeide et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

Bill coloration, a flexible signal in a tropical passerine bird, is regulated by social environment and androgens

(2011) Jordan Karubian et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Intrasexual competition in females: evidence for sexual selection?

(2011) Kimberly A. Rosvall   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Carotenoid-based signals in behavioural ecology: a review

(2011) Svensson et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Delayed plumage maturation and delayed reproductive investment in birds

(2011) Gerard L. Hawkins et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Pteridine, not carotenoid, pigments underlie the female-specific orange ornament of striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus)

(2011) S.L. Weiss et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

AVIAN VISION AND THE EVOLUTION OF EGG COLOR MIMICRY IN THE COMMON CUCKOO

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   EVOLUTION

QTL LINKAGE MAPPING OF ZEBRA FINCH BEAK COLOR SHOWS AN OLIGOGENIC CONTROL OF A SEXUALLY SELECTED TRAIT

(2011) Holger Schielzeth et al.   EVOLUTION

A multigene phylogeny examining evolutionary and ecological relationships in the Australo-papuan wrens of the subfamily Malurinae (Aves)

(2011) Amy C. Driskell et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Sexually Selected Male Plumage Color Is Testosterone Dependent in a Tropical Passerine Bird, the Red-Backed Fairy-Wren (Malurus melanocephalus)

(2011) Willow R. Lindsay et al.   PLoS One

Multiple shifts between violet and ultraviolet vision in a family of passerine birds with associated changes in plumage coloration

(2011) A. Odeen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Species Tree for the Australo-Papuan Fairy-wrens and Allies (Aves: Maluridae)

(2011) June Y. Lee et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Heritability and genetic correlation between the sexes in a songbird sexual ornament

(2010) J Potti et al.   HEREDITY

Reproductive competition promotes the evolution of female weaponry

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

What makes a feather shine? A nanostructural basis for glossy black colours in feathers

(2010) R. Maia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Difference in Plumage Color Used in Species Recognition between Incipient Species Is Linked to a Single Amino Acid Substitution in the Melanocortin‐1 Receptor

(2009) J. Albert C. Uy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Plumage colour acquisition and behaviour are associated with androgens in a phenotypically plastic tropical bird

(2009) Willow R. Lindsay et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female-specific ornamentation predicts offspring quality in the striped plateau lizard, Sceloporus virgatus

(2009) Stacey L. Weiss et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

(2009) J. Jordan Price et al.   EVOLUTION

Iridescent structural colour production in male blue-black grassquit feather barbules: the role of keratin and melanin

(2009) R. Maia et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species

(2009) Dustin R. Rubenstein et al.   NATURE

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

The effects of delayed plumage maturation on aggression and survival in male red-backed fairy-wrens

(2008) Jordan Karubian et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Plumage color and reproduction in the red-backed fairy-wren: Why be a dull breeder?

(2008) M. S. Webster et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Assessing the use of genomic DNA as a predictor of the maximum absorbance wavelength of avian SWS1 opsin visual pigments

(2008) Anders Ödeen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

No fecundity cost of female secondary sexual trait expression in the horned beetleOnthophagus sagittarius

(2008) L. W. SIMMONS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY