Feather bacterial load affects plumage condition, iridescent color, and investment in preening in pigeons

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Preen gland removal increases plumage bacterial load but not that of feather-degrading bacteria

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Bacterial degradability of an intrafeather unmelanized ornament: a role for feather-degrading bacteria in sexual selection?

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Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

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Potential Semiochemical Molecules from Birds: A Practical and Comprehensive Compilation of the Last 20 Years Studies

(2011) S. Campagna et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

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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Decreased hydrophobicity of iridescent feathers: a potential cost of shiny plumage

(2011) C. M. Eliason et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

An individual and a sex odor signature in kittiwakes? Study of the semiochemical composition of preen secretion and preen down feathers

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Guidelines for estimating repeatability

(2011) Matthew E. Wolak et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of access to preen gland secretions on mallard plumage

(2010) Mathieu Giraudeau et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) G. Sharon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Feather micro-organisms and uropygial antimicrobial defences in a colonial passerine bird

(2009) Anders P. Møller et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Antimicrobial chemicals in hoopoe preen secretions are produced by symbiotic bacteria

(2009) M. Martin-Vivaldi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

SEASONALLY CHANGING PREEN-WAX COMPOSITION: RED KNOTS' (CALIDRIS CANUTUS) FLEXIBLE DEFENSE AGAINST FEATHER-DEGRADING BACTERIA?

(2008) JEROEN RENEERKENS et al.   AUK

FEATHER-DEGRADING BACTERIA: A NEW FRONTIER IN AVIAN AND HOST–PARASITE RESEARCH?

(2008) ALEX R. GUNDERSON   AUK

Experimental support for the makeup hypothesis in nestling tawny owls (Strix aluco)

(2008) Romain Piault et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Skin microbiota: a source of disease or defence?

(2008) A.L. Cogen et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

Optical properties of the uropygial gland secretion: no evidence for UV cosmetics in birds

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