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

Paternal Investment and the "Sexually Selected Hypothesis" For the Evolution of Eggshell Coloration: Revisiting the Assumptions

(2011) Christina Riehl   AUK

Eggshell pigments – from formation to deposition

(2011) Nicholas H.C. Sparks   Avian Biology Research

Sexual selection based on egg colour: physiological models and egg discrimination experiments in a cavity-nesting bird

(2011) Jesús M. Avilés et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Review: an embryo's eye view of avian eggshell pigmentation

(2011) Golo Maurer et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Speckles of cryptic black-headed gull eggs show no mechanical or conductance structural function

(2011) G. Maurer et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Expression and activity analysis reveal that heme oxygenase (decycling) 1 is associated with blue egg formation

(2011) Z. P. Wang et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

A Blackmail Hypothesis for the Evolution of Conspicuous Egg Coloration in Birds

(2010) Daniel Hanley et al.   AUK

Biliverdin-based egg coloration is enhanced by carotenoid supplementation

(2010) Judith Morales et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Impact of time since collection on avian eggshell color: a comparison of museum and fresh egg specimens

(2010) Phillip Cassey et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Using digital cameras to investigate animal colouration: estimating sensor sensitivity functions

(2010) Thomas W. Pike   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Avian eggshell coloration: new perspectives on adaptive explanations

(2010) MICHAEL I. CHERRY et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

On the heritability of blue-green eggshell coloration

(2010) J. MORALES et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Are brighter eggs better? Egg color and parental investment by House Wrens

(2010) Lindsey A. Walters et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

The Role of Matrix Proteins in Eggshell Formation

(2010) Maxwell T. Hincke et al.   JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE

Variability in Avian Eggshell Colour: A Comparative Study of Museum Eggshells

(2010) Phillip Cassey et al.   PLoS One

The transmission color value: A novel egg quality measure for recording shell color used for monitoring the stress and health status of a brown layer flock

(2010) K. Mertens et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Genetic differentiation among sympatric cuckoo host races: males matter

(2010) F. Fossoy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is sexual selection blurring the functional significance of eggshell coloration hypotheses?

(2009) S. James Reynolds et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Egg coloration in ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis): a test of the sexual signaling hypothesis

(2009) Daniel Hanley et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

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

(2008) DAVID C. LAHTI   AUK

Pigment allocation to eggs decreases plasma antioxidants in a songbird

(2008) Judith Morales et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

ARE OSTRICH STRUTHIO CAMELUS EGGS THE WRONG COLOUR?

(2008) Brian C. R. Bertram et al.   IBIS

PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN BIRDS

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   IBIS

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CLUTCH-SIZE. Part III.-Some Interspecific Comparisons

(2008) David Lack   IBIS

Eggshell colour does not predict measures of maternal investment in eggs of Turdus thrushes

(2008) Phillip Cassey et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Phylogenetic distributions of British birds of conservation concern

(2008) G. H Thomas   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES