Melanin-based coloration reflects alternative strategies to cope with food limitation in pigeons

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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Reproduction management affects breeding ecology and reproduction costs in feral urban Pigeons (Columba livia)

(2010) Lisa Jacquin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Multivariate phenotypes and the potential for alternative phenotypic optima in wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) ventral colour morphs

(2010) B. CALSBEEK et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Regulation of stress response is heritable and functionally linked to melanin-based coloration

(2010) B. ALMASI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Melanin coloration has temperature-dependent effects on breeding performance that may maintain phenotypic variation in a passerine bird

(2010) P. M. SIRKIÄ et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Darker eumelanic barn owls better withstand food depletion through resistance to food deprivation and lower appetite

(2010) Amélie Dreiss et al.   OECOLOGIA

Pheomelanin‐Based Coloration and the Ability to Cope with Variation in Food Supply and Parasitism

(2009) Romain Piault et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Inter-annual variation and information content of melanin-based coloration in female Eurasian kestrels

(2009) PABLO VERGARA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2009) Julien Gasparini et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Growth of yellow-headed blackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalusnestlings in relation to maternal body condition, egg mass, and yolk carotenoids concentrations

(2009) Jennifer L. Newbrey et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Melanin-based coloration covaries with ovary size in an age-specific manner in the barn owl

(2009) Alexandre Roulin   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION