Dinosaur origin of egg color: oviraptors laid blue-green eggs

Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China

(2017) Hanyong Pu et al.   Nature Communications

Reproduction in Mesozoic birds and evolution of the modern avian reproductive mode

(2016) David J. Varricchio et al.   AUK

Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic

(2016) Julia A. Clarke et al.   NATURE

Camouflage and Clutch Survival in Plovers and Terns

(2016) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   Scientific Reports

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

First record of a complete giant theropod egg clutch from Upper Cretaceous deposits, South Korea

(2014) Min Huh et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of parental incubation behaviour in dinosaurs cannot be inferred from clutch mass in birds

(2013) G. F. Birchard et al.   Biology Letters

Structure of the Biliverdin Cofactor in the Pfr State of Bathy and Prototypical Phytochromes

(2013) Johannes Salewski et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Hemoglobin-derived porphyrins preserved in a Middle Eocene blood-engorged mosquito

(2013) D. E. Greenwalt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why are birds' eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments co-vary with life-history and nesting ecology among British breeding non-passerine birds

(2012) PHILLIP CASSEY et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A Review of Dromaeosaurid Systematics and Paravian Phylogeny

(2012) Alan H. Turner et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Vegetation height and egg coloration differentially affect predation rate and overheating risk: an experimental test mimicking a ground-nesting bird

(2012) H. Gillis et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

(2012) Matthew T. Carrano et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Clutch predation in great tinamous Tinamus major and implications for the evolution of egg color

(2010) Patricia L. R. Brennan   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

How depth alters detection and capture of buried prey: exploitation of sea turtle eggs by mongooses

(2009) Patrick A. Leighton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Extraction and analysis of colourful eggshell pigments using HPLC and HPLC/electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

(2009) A. Gorchein et al.   BIOMEDICAL CHROMATOGRAPHY

Detecting pigments from colourful eggshells of extinct birds

(2009) Branislav Igic et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Photodynamic antimicrobial activity of avian eggshell pigments

(2009) Shin-ichi Ishikawa et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Comparison of the total amount of eggshell pigments in Dongxiang brown-shelled eggs and Dongxiang blue-shelled eggs

(2009) X. T. Wang et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

The supramolecular structure of melanin

(2009) Andrew A. R. Watt et al.   Soft Matter

POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION AND RAPID EVOLUTION OF EGG COLOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH SOLAR RADIATION

(2008) DAVID C. LAHTI   AUK

Avian Paternal Care Had Dinosaur Origin

(2008) David J. Varricchio et al.   SCIENCE